England · Still standing
St Mawes Castle
St Mawes Castle is a mid-16th century artillery fort on the eastern side of the Carrick Roads estuary near Falmouth, Cornwall, built under Henry VIII's Device programme. Designed in a clover-leaf plan it provided overlapping fire with Pendennis Castle across the river and remained an active coastal fortification into the 19th and 20th centuries. Today it survives as an English Heritage site and a scheduled Grade I listed building.
First raised
1539
Its prime
1542
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1542
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact clover-leaf stone fort of grey-brown masonry: a four-storey circular central tower with a small round cap/turret and three projecting, round bastions that form curved gun platforms; low, thick curtain walls with stepped parapets and embrasures; a stone arched approach across a ditch; the fort sits on a rocky headland above the estuary with a small blockhouse at sea level below and open water visible on two sides.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1542.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at St Mawes Castle — including 1 interior: interior of the central tower (four storeys). 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 St Mawes Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1542 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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