Information

Creation of new, year-round visitor centre that will protect, interpret and make accessible the heritage and natural environment of some 33 acres.

Funding:

Towns Fund:  £0.67m
Co-Funding:  £0.06m

Key project themes:

Tackle Climate Change
Improve Health and Wellbeing
Enhanced Cultural Offer and Branding
Address COVID-19 Recovery

Rationale:

Addresses need to make the heritage and natural environment of the site accessible, as it is difficult to visit and poorly signed.

Addresses anxiety levels generated as a result of COVID-19 by providing an oasis of wellbeing.

Project summary:

The focus of this project is a unique landscape which has at its heart the earliest monastic remains ever found archeologically in Britain. A partnership between the Friends of St Bride’s Mound, South West Heritage Trust and Somerset Wildlife Trust will create a new visitor destination there, protecting, interpreting and making accessible the heritage and natural environment of the St Brigid’s Chapel and Field sites (33 acres together called Beckery).

Outcomes/Impact:

Enhance an historic site

Bring more visitors to an historic site as part of Glastonbury tourist trail

Lead organisation: Friends of St Bride’s Mound, South West Heritage Trust and Somerset Wildlife Trust