A digital reconstruction of the interior of the chapel at Clifford's Tower, York Castle, as it might have looked in the fourteenth century. The chapel was beautifully decorated. Evidence survives of its blind arcades and pointed arches. Its walls would probably have been limewashed with false or fictive ashlar. I have suggested a possible scheme in my reconstruction. The chapel underwent significant alterations after the Civil War, with the windows on the southeast side being blocked up. The chapel is located directly above the tower's entrance. The portcullis gate was raised and lowered through an opening on the floor. A tabernacle containing the Blessed Sacrament is suspended above the altar - it is sometimes called a hanging pyx. The image shows the castle's chaplain and a woman of high status kneeling at a prie-dieu.

How this image was made

Software and tools used: Blender 3D, Cycles Render Engine, Photoshop

Notes: This reconstruction was developed with input and feedback from historians Michael Carter, Jeremy Ashbee, and Steven Brindle. Some of the initial modelling of this interior scene was undertaken by Carlos Lemos based on a measured survey. I added the finer details, textures, and figures, and produced the final rendering.