England · Restored
Carisbrooke Castle
Carisbrooke Castle is a motte-and-bailey castle on a hill above the village of Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, historically a royal stronghold and later a prison. The site preserves a medieval keep, a 15th-century entrance gate (the Woodville Gate), domestic buildings around a central courtyard, a chapel, a well-house with a donkey wheel and extensive late-16th-century earthworks.
First raised
1100
Its prime
1600
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1600
The shape it held in its prime.
Broad stone approach over a low-parapet bridge leads to a massive twin drum-towered gatehouse with a pointed arched entrance set between cylindrical towers; the gatehouse wears crenellations and a projecting machicolated parapet above a row of small arches. The masonry is pale ashlar and coursed rubble; through the open arch the rectangular medieval keep and ranges of domestic buildings sit within a defended bailey. Steep grassy earthworks and outer stone ramparts, some ivy-covered, surround the site.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1600.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Carisbrooke Castle — including 6 interiors: gate passage looking inward, great hall, great chamber (upper room) and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Carisbrooke Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1600 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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