In February 2024, the award of a UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) enabled the Project Partnership to develop a new digital interpretation of Margam Castle, focusing on virtual reconstructions of the castle’s interiors. These interiors were lost, firstly to a four-day sale in 1941 and then to a fire in 1977.
A community and volunteer strand of work, led by CFP Landscape and Heritage, has been supplemented by a systematic study of historical records and archives, led by CHART, and digital heritage innovation (led by CODAH, Centre for Digital Arts and Humanities, at Swansea University). During the digital phase of the project, we will work with technical specialists to recreate the interior as a furnished, navigable model to create both on-site and off-site digital experiences of the Victorian-era Castle.
Co-Investigators:
Dr Hilary Orange
Dr Leighton Evans
Research Officer:
Beau Jones