England · Partial ruin
Wallingford Castle
Wallingford Castle is a medieval motte-and-bailey castle in Wallingford, historically in Berkshire, constructed soon after the Norman Conquest and expanded in stone in the 12th century. It became a major royal fortress and luxurious residence in the 12th–13th centuries, was slighted after the English Civil War, and today survives as earthworks, sections of wall and the motte open to the public.
First raised
1067
Its prime
1250
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1250
The shape it held in its prime.
Sited beside the River Thames with a large circular motte rising above the town, the castle in its prime had a stone shell-keep atop the motte and a continuous curtain wall enclosing the bailey. The masonry is pale, chalky rubble and flint with later brick patching visible at lower courses; the curtain wall included crenellated towers and arrow-slits. Domestic ranges and a substantial hall adjoined the inner bailey, with the whole complex set amid broad earthwork banks and river meadows.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1250.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Wallingford Castle — including 3 interiors: great hall (richard of cornwall's hall), st nicholas college chapel and precinct, cloere brien (the prison). 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 Wallingford Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1250 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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