NHER 4333 (Monument record) - Site of St Mary's Hospital

Site of St Mary's Hospital (Ordnance Survey antiquity).
Founded 1278 for a master, two priests, eight bretheren and eight sisters. After Dissolution lodgings and chapel became a Grammar School.
See (S1) and (S2).

(S3) recorded in use as a bridewell and children's hospital, with windvane dated 1664. It retained a 'large chapel like window'. (S4) marks as workhouse. (S5) quotes (S1) as mentioning separately another hospital (unlocated) founded in the town and dated 1386. But is this really different from above?
E. Rose (NAU), 23 March 1981.

(S6) noted that this was in use as an Ordnance Office 6.71m x 4.5m (22 x 15 feet) now out of use and to be used as a workhouse. Thus (S3) must be post 1750, as noted in (S7).
E. Rose (NAU), 23 March 1984.

The school was rebuilt in the 1840s and again on a different alignment in 1931.
Information from GYM.
E. Rose, 21 November 1996.

The east to west block may be of 1931 but the Market Place facade is of around 1900, in Bottle and Olleys style.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 December 1998.

May 1997. Trial Trenching.
The three trenches excavated revealed deep made ground deposits, much of which was potentially medieval. Substantial walls revealed in two of the trenches are probably remnants of 18th-century buildings that can be seen on Faden's map of 1797.
See report (S8) for further details. This work is also noted in (S9).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2018.272).
E. Rose (NLA), 24 November 1997. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 February 2014 and 15 April 2019.