Developments
A chapel was built in 1907 in contrasting style to the rest of the school. Its sponsor was the wealthy Sir Henry Wills, later Lord Winterstoke. Wills was a director of Bristol-based family firm, Wills Tobacco. This company later joined with several others to become Imperial Tobacco. Two features in the chapel are especially of note: the organ and the mosaics. In 2007 on the centenary of the founding of the Chapel the original pipe organ was removed, it being replaced by a new digital organ which was funded in part, by donations from Old Tauntonians.
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