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Cambridge college plans to install climbing wall in 150
A Cambridge University college has submitted plans to build a climbing wall inside a Grade II-listed church tower.
Pembroke College has applied to install 10-metre-high climbing walls and ropes inside the 150-year-old tower of Emmanuel United Reformed Church.
The college submitted a planning application to Cambridge City Council to transform the currently disused tower into what it says will be the “first rope climbing facility” in the city centre.
It has said “six to seven” people will be able to use the structure at one time and only by those “adequately trained”.
It is not clear if it will be open to the general public or to Cambridge students who attend other colleges.
The church was sold to the college in 2020 after its congregation merged with the nearby St Columba’s United Reformed Church to form Downing Place United Reformed Church.
Its nave and apse have since been converted into a 200-seat auditorium for lectures, events and performances, with its original pulpit, arches and wooden roof trusses all preserved.
