Wales · Restored
Chirk Castle
Chirk Castle is a medieval castle in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, built in 1295 and later adapted as a country house. It is a Grade I listed building set within extensive historic gardens and parkland and is managed by the National Trust. The site combines its medieval fortress fabric with later domestic alterations and planned 18th-century landscape features.
First raised
1295
Its prime
1742
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1742
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact medieval stone fortress set in parkland, with continuous curtain walls and attached domestic ranges displaying 16th–17th-century mullioned and transomed windows. The castle is flanked by formal terraces and clipped yew hedges to the east, an outer walled courtyard to the north with a wrought-iron gateway, and an ornamental lake nearby into which part of Offa's Dyke is submerged; the roofline is a sequence of pitched roofs over lived-in ranges and service wings.
Step inside
10 places to explore in 1742.
The record describes 10 distinct spots at Chirk Castle — including the full exterior approach. 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 Chirk Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1742 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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