Wells Theological College

[1] It was one of several new colleges created in the nineteenth century to cater not just for non-graduates, but for graduates from the old universities who wished to receive specialist clerical training in preparation for ordination into the Church of England.

Their studies included Holy Scriptures, Book of Common Prayer, the Articles, ecclesiastical history, Hebrew and pastoral theology.

[8] A guide book of 1862 notes that the students were using the Vicars' Hall as a library,[9] but in 1896 they purchased a nearby building for this purpose on Cathedral Green.

Rebuilt in the 15th century for Archdeacon Holes, it was still used as a house in 1555 when Canon Polydore Vergil surrendered it to the Crown.

[12] The Cedars, a house built in 1758 for MP Charles Tudway,[13] was leased by the Trustees of the Theological College in 1919 for use as a hostel for some of the students.