England · Partial ruin
Cawood Castle
Cawood Castle is a medieval episcopal palace in Cawood, North Yorkshire; only the 15th-century gatehouse and the two-storey banqueting hall survive. The fortified quadrangle was largely dismantled after the English Civil War and stones were reused in local buildings. The gatehouse has been restored for holiday use while the banqueting hall is weatherproof but not habitable.
First raised
1378
Its prime
1465
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1465
The shape it held in its prime.
A crenellated pale limestone gatehouse with a large arched central passage attaches to a long two-storey red-brown brick banqueting range with a steep clay-tiled roof and a regular row of narrow vertical windows set between shallow buttresses. The gatehouse has ashlar stonework and a battlemented parapet; the brick hall shows repeated pointed-arch window openings. The complex faces an open grassy garth with traces of ponds and low foundation lines, set within the village.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1465.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Cawood Castle — including 3 interiors: through the gatehouse archway (passage), banqueting hall — great hall interior, subterranean cellar and vaulted storage. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Cawood Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1465 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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