Wales · Restored
Oystermouth Castle
Oystermouth Castle is a Norman stone castle on a low wooded hill overlooking Swansea Bay at Mumbles on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. Largely rebuilt in stone in the 13th century and fitted with a chapel and multi-storey domestic ranges, it served as a principal residence for the Lords of Gower before declining in the later medieval period. The castle has since been conserved and reopened to the public after 21st-century restoration work.
Its prime
1300
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1300
The shape it held in its prime.
Massive light‑grey stone curtain walls with crenellated parapets surround an irregular rectangular keep and multi-storey domestic ranges; a prominent rectangular tower with narrow pointed windows rises above the walls. To the east a chapel block with tall 14th‑century traceried windows sits within the curtain. The gatehouse entrance has inturned walls suggesting flanking round towers. Ruined gabled ranges and exposed basements open into a grassy inner ward on a low wooded hill overlooking Swansea Bay and the village of Mumbles.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1300.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Oystermouth Castle — including 3 interiors: residential block first-floor hall, alina's chapel interior (second floor), basement service rooms. 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 Oystermouth Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1300 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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