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 Beaumaris Castle, Beaumaris, Co. Isle of Anglesey
 Beaumaris Castle
Beaumaris Castle was the last of the castles built for King Edward I of England to keep North Wales in line. Work started in 1295 and continued until 1330, employing 400 stonemasons and 2,000 labourers at a cost of £14,500. Despite or perhaps because of this Beaumaris is unfinished, the great towers of the inner ward are without their top storeys while the turrets which were intended to be bigger than any other castle in Wales , were not even started, left as James of St George’s unfinished masterpiece.
The castle is entered beside the Dock, via a footbridge over the moat into the ‘Gate Next the Sea’. Then from the outer ward to the inner ward through a Barbican and a twin towered gatehouse. The inner ward is protected by six towers and a northern gatehouse, which would have provided domestic accommodation. This is connected via wall passages to what would have been stately apartments and a castle chapel in the Chapel Tower which houses an exhibition on Edward’s Welsh castles and the design origins in the castles of Savoy.
This attraction is included in the Great British Heritage Pass.
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