The Debtors Prison nowadays forms part of York’s Castle Museum, possibly the foremost folk museum in the Country and visited each year by over half a million people. It was built in 1701 on the south-eastem side of the old castle yard as a replacement for earlier ruinous buildings. It is a fine Vanburgh building having two projecting wings with an octagonal turret, containing a clock and bell, surmounting the centre.
J.R. Nursey