A new mural has been unveiled at the Wells and Mendip Museum.

The mural depicts three characters who significantly contributed to the wellbeing of the city's residents, Bishop Beckynton who constructed a conduit to supply the city with fresh water, Dean William Turner 'the father of English botany' whose Herbal was the first to be written in English, and the founder of the museum – caver Herbert Balch.

The mural was unveiled by contemporary representatives of these three, the Rt Reverend Ruth Worsley Bishop of Taunton, the Very Revd Dr John Davies Dean of Wells, and locally based caver Chris Jewell who was involved in the rescue of members of a junior football team from the flooded Tham Luang cave in Thailand.

The mural was concieved by museum trustee and ceramicist Philippa Threlfall, and made by local volunteers and pupils from a local school.