England · Restored
Chester Castle
Chester Castle is a castle complex in Chester, Cheshire, combining surviving medieval fabric with a major late-18th/early-19th-century neoclassical rebuilding by Thomas Harrison. The site includes medieval curtain walls and towers alongside Harrison's Propylaeum entrance, Shire Hall and flanking blocks, and contains a chapel and crypt in the Agricola Tower. Parts of the complex have been repurposed as courts and a military museum and the site remains visitable.
First raised
1069
Its prime
1813
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1813
The shape it held in its prime.
A broad, formal complex on a raised eminence above the River Dee: a monumental neoclassical entrance (Propylaeum) with a heavy entablature on widely spaced Doric columns flanked by small temple-like lodges gives onto a large paved forecourt. Directly behind is a long, ashlar-faced Shire Hall with a projecting central Doric portico of seven bays within a nineteen-bay façade; matching neoclassical barrack and armoury blocks sit to left and right. To the south and west survive medieval sandstone curtain walls with the round Halfmoon Tower and the square Flag Tower, plus the three-storey Agricola Tower of sandstone ashlar with a small projecting stair turret.
Step inside
11 places to explore in 1813.
The record describes 11 distinct spots at Chester Castle — including 2 interiors: agricola tower — crypt, chapel of st mary de castro — first-floor chapel. 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 Chester Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1813 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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