Wales · Restored
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle is a medieval castle and later Victorian Gothic-revival mansion located in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. It retains a Norman motte-and-shell-keep and extensive curtain walls alongside 19th-century Gothic rebuilding and decorative work commissioned by the Marquesses of Bute and executed by William Burges.
First raised
1080
Its prime
1880
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1880
The shape it held in its prime.
Long crenellated curtain walls of mixed warm-brown and pale grey masonry enclose an inner bailey approached via a large arched gatehouse; a polygonal shell keep/motte rises above the inner ward as a rounded, battlemented tower. To the west a tall octagonal medieval lodging-tower dominates lower roofs; to the south-west a separate ornate Victorian clock tower with a pitched metal roof and clock faces rises above the curtain. Flagpoles and battlements punctuate the skyline; the complex sits in the city centre beside a paved road.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1880.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Cardiff Castle — including 2 interiors: stavell oged and stavell wenn chambers (black tower ground floor), main lodgings interior (gothic revival suites). 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 Cardiff Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1880 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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