The medieval chapel was adopted as the chapel for Wells Theological College, established in 1840 through slavery-derived wealth. Inside is a memorial frieze to the College’s first principal, the Reverend John Hothersall Pinder (1794-1868), previously a slave-owner and a chaplain to enslaved people on the Codrington estate in Barbados. Early in his Church career Pinder had publicly defended slavery and the interest of slave-owners.