Dundee Castle no longer stands — it was demolished after Edward I of England captured the town in the late thirteenth century — but its hilltop site is now occupied by St Paul's Cathedral, a striking 1850s Gothic-revival church designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The 64-metre spire is the tallest in the city and visible from the waterfront below.
Inside, the cathedral is taller and lighter than its grey exterior suggests, with stained glass by Hardman of Birmingham and a polychrome ceiling that has been carefully restored. The site offers a small reminder of the castle's role in the Wars of Scottish Independence: William Wallace is said to have killed the constable's son here as a young man, an event that pushed him into rebellion.