Founded for leprous brothers and sisters, the hospital became a dependency of the male monastery Wimbourne College Wareham (female) sometime after 1500.
Early Ecclesiastical Settlement in Dorset: a Note on the Topography of Sherborne, Beaminster and Wimborne Minster
Wimborne Minster (SZ 0199). The Early Development of the Town
College of Wimbourne, in Dorsetshire
The Victoria History of the County of Dorset2:106-7 available online at ">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40164&strquery=wimbo... [Victoria County History]
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Further research is necessary to be certain that Wimborne hospital was a women's community.