A DERELICT chapel has been converted into a bright new space for students at Wiltshire College Salisbury.
St Mary’s Higher Education Centre was officially opened last Friday.
The chapel is a listed building, complete with rare stained glass windows, which has stood empty in the college grounds for some years.
But now it will now be used as an educational and social facility for students on higher education courses at the campus.
The college’s strategic director of HE, John Adams, said “The number of HE students at Salisbury has grown over the last few years and this year we’ve seen a real boom in applications so this new centre is very timely. “The students needed a new area to socialise and study and to display their work and it will be a useful place for residential students to congregate.”
The £200,000 conversion project has been funded by Bournemouth University, one of Wiltshire College’s education partners.
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