NHER 13375 (Monument record) - Site of Great Yarmouth Castle

Site of castle, with four towers, used as gaol in 1550, demolished in 1621. Little is known about structure.
Information from manuscript of Andrews 1740 (S1), quoted by (S2).
Information on location from C. Lewis (GYM).

March 1965. Brunswick Hotel, 149 King Street.
3m (10 feet) deep flint and mortar foundations with boulders 0.6m (2 feet) across found in alterations, under a 16th century brick floor. Information from [1], brief report (S3) in file. Samples of boulders to Geological Survey.
Castle leased to town 3 January 1525 (first mentioned 1 Henry IV); 1550 given to town, converted to prison. Top removed 1620 and used to enclose East Mount; demolished 1621. In 1622 a house in 'Row' 76 was repaired with the material. Illustration from Elizabethan map in file; copied from cover of (S4).
(S5) claims castle extant in 1239.
'Row' 99 was known as Castle Row.
(S6) states that the name Castle was not used until 1396, but before this it was called the Kingstonhus which must take its date of foundation back to before 1208 when the town was in the king's hands.
E. Rose (NLA), 16 April 1992