Climb Through Time Pembroke

Aim

Build a dramatic staircase and viewing platform to complete a unique community venue for the people and visitors of Pembroke.

Climb Through Time: A staircase and viewing platform with views across the South of Pembroke.

The Tabernacle garden is being transformed into a stunning community space that celebrates the substantial history and heritage of Pembroke. We need your support to build a dramatic staircase and viewing platform that will stand 40 feet above the commons and link the Tabernacle Garden to Main Street through the Tabernacle Church. The staircase will complete the Tabernacle Garden and create an incredible public space for the all members of the Pembroke community and our many visitors to explore and discover.  

With your support we can build the staircase and complete this exciting and innovative attraction. 

The staircase will connect:  The community and visitors; The Commons to Main Street; Children and space to play;  The historic garden to the Victorian school room;  Medieval stone walls to the modern Pembroke Story; Community groups, charities and volunteers; People to the wildlife and landscape. 

Climb Through Time: Connecting the Tabernacle Garden, the community and visitors.

The Tabernacle garden sits below the Tabernacle United Reformed Church on the southern side of Pembroke. Funding has been already been secured to transform the site. Work investigating and preserving the important archaeology of the site has been carried out and the site has been cleared in preparation for landscaping and planting. Progress is being made towards securing the final funding needed to restore and repair the Medieval stone burgage walls.  Completed, it will become an exemplar for the sustainable regeneration of the town walls. The garden will feature careful heritage planting and interactive resources making it an exciting and informative community space that will allow locals, tourists and pupils to walk through Pembroke’s story.

Left: Work well underway. Looking up from the entrance of the towering site. Top-right: The view from half way up the staircase will reveal the dramatic drop to the garden below.  Bottom-right: The garden will be filled with Heritage planting that takes you through the time periods of Pembroke's past and show off the spectacular Medieval walls. 

The staircase that you fund will create a route up from the completed garden to the Tabernacle church. At the top of the staircase you will discover a dramatic viewing platform with views across the Pembrokeshire countryside towards St Daniel's Church. The Tabernacle Church has its own wealth of history.  Within the church is a restored Victorian schoolroom and the Pembroke Story historical exhibition. Once connected the garden and church will become an outstanding venue for schools and visitors to learn more about Pembroke’s history, the town walls, conservation and sustainable development.

  The staircase will rise from the higher level of the site, accessed via a path through the garden, and lead to the viewing platform that will sit 40 feet above The Commons. As you climb up you will be able to see through to the lower garden bringing fantastic drama to the space. 

Building this staircase will not only connect these innovative community projects together but help to boost the economic activity of the town.  The Tabernacle exhibition and garden will draw people from Pembroke Castle along Main Street past the cafes and shops of Pembroke. The staircase will provide a route for people to visit this attraction whilst transporting them from the top of Main Street on their way back to The Commons car park.

Pembroke is a walled Medieval town that has a very profound history. It was the birthplace of Henry VII and hence the Tudor dynasty making it of huge historical importance to Wales, the UK and beyond. The PTWT is striving to repair, rebuild the original Medieval walls in order to preserve the town’s physical history. Your kind support for this project will help to preserve and showcase a piece of this history for current and future generations.

This is a project where you will be able to clearly see an outcome that will make a huge difference to this small town and its people. Please help us reach our target of £5000!

 Sit amongst the Medieval stonework and enjoy the magnificent views across the Commons from the Climb Through Time Stairway – a unique opportunity.

Partners

The Tabernacle Garden Project or Pilot Project is a collaboration between:

• Pembroke Town Walls Trust (PTWT)The Pembroke Town Walls Trust was set up by local people in 2011. The trust is working to ensure the preservation of the historic town walls of Pembroke for the long-term benefit of our community.

• Pembroke 21C Pembroke 21C exists to work closely with the whole community to provide a focus for activities that are open to all, in order to encourage pride and community spirit in Pembroke in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.

• Tabernacle United Reformed Church  We are a Church that is active and participative in the life of the Community that it serves. We are creative and seek new avenues in forming active partnerships with other local agencies. Seeking strength in diversity rather than similarity, we will seek to reach out to all offering support, hope and reconciliation.

• The Pembroke StoryA community project run by volunteers, from Pembroke 21C, to collate Pembroke's heritage, history, its past, its present, the people and the town itself. The Pembroke Story can be found on its website or in an exhibition in the Tabernacle Church. 

Support

The Tabernacle Garden project has received funding from:

HLF, CADW, URC Synod Wales, URC UK, PHBT, Pembroke Town Council, Pembrokeshire County Council ,Pilgrim Trust, Communities Facility Programme Welsh Government.

The Climb Through Time Campaign has recieved generous support from the following businesses in Pembroke:

Rewards

Rewards have been kindly donated by the shops and cafe's of Pembroke.  A voucher will be sent to you by mail which can be redeemed at the corresponding shop or cafe in Pembroke.  We would like to thank all of the businesses in Pembroke for their fantastic support of this project. 

This project successfully funded on 30th July 2016