Bath College (English public school)

Bath College was an English public school in Bath, Somerset, in existence from 1878 to 1909. It was founded by Thomas William Dunn (1837–1930), previously an assistant master at Clifton College, who was headmaster from 1878 to 1897.[1]

The school's premises were on North Road, Bath.[2] They had been built in 1835, as a private residence for Augustus Andrew who had been an army officer in India, named "Vellore House", to a design by John Pinch the younger. A later owner was the Rev. Charles Kemble, who died in 1874.

In 1890 a chapel was erected at Bath College and was opened by the Lord Bishop in May of that year.[3] The chapel building was built on the old playground adjoining the Head Master's residence and was in the Grecian style of architecture to correspond with the front of the College and Head Master's residence.[4] Following the school's closure many of the pews from the chapel were installed to provide additional seating in St Luke's Church, South Lyncombe in 1913 and the pulpit and reading desk from the chapel were donated to St Phillip's Mission Church, Odd Down in 1914.[5][6]

The school closed down in 1909, and subsequently the building was sold and refurbished, opening as the Bath Hydro Hotel in 1913.[7][8] By 1914 the directors of the hotel decided that the name was misleading and changed it to become the Bath Spa Hotel.[9][10][11][12]

Notes
  1. "Dunn, Thomas William (DN860TW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire: With the City of Bristol. Kelly & Company. 1883. p. 45.
  3. "Opening of Bath College Chapel". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. 8 May 1890.
  4. "The New Bath College Chapel". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. 1 May 1890.
  5. "The Bishops at Bath". Shepton Mallet Journal. 24 Oct 1913.
  6. "The pulpit.". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. 2 May 1914.
  7. "An army of workmen...". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. 19 Oct 1912.
  8. "Bath Hydro Hotel". The Scotsman. 15 Oct 1913.
  9. Bowers, Keith (2016-05-05). Imperial Exile. Brown Dog. p. 69. ISBN 9781785450884. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  10. Society, Bathwick Local History (2008-06-06). Bathwick: echoes of the past. Millstream Books. p. 71. ISBN 9780948975844.
  11. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Kemble, Charles
  12. "Bath and Clifton Hotels". Clifton Society. 9 Jul 1914.
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