Professor John Moreland and Martin Gorman
Gatehouse reconstruction produced, in collaboration with HumanVR, as part of the University of Sheffield’s CastlegateVR project
Mary Queen of Scots spent a third of her life as a prisoner in Sheffield – much of it in the town’s castle. Once ‘among the largest in England’, this great fortress was demolished on the orders of parliament, in 1646, at the end of the English civil war). Subsequently ‘every trace of the building … disappeared under the utilitarian demands of a manufacturing town’.