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1 of 5: Welcome to the virtual tour of Framlingham Castle. These images show how the castle may have looked in around the year 1200. Use the left and right arrows above to move from one image to the next. This page should work with IE4+, NS4+ and Mozilla Firefox. If you have the VRML plug-in installed you can explore this castle. There are details on the right of this page explaining how to install the plug-in and how to move around in VRML worlds.

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2 of 5: The castle consists of thirteen towers arranged around the curtain wall. The back of each tower is open and a wooden plank was used to cover the gap between the wallwalks of the ajoining walls. These planks could be removed if part of the wall had been captured by enemy fighters to prevent them taking control of the whole curtain wall.

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3 of 5:The inner bailey consists of the Great Hall, the strongest part of a castle, a chapel where the King or Lord could worship and buildings for servants and visiting nobles. A well was dug in the inner bailey so that a source of fresh water was always available.

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4 of 5:The prison tower and lower bailey. The prison tower projects from the main curtain wall to the left of the main entrance. It was part of a lower court. The mounds of the lower court can still be seen and would have had walls on top to provide an extra defendable area of the castle.

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5 of 5: The castle is surrounded by a ditch and beyond that an outer bailey. The outer bailey would have had contained housing for local villagers and was itself surrounded by another ditch.