St Andrews Castle is a ruin on a rocky promontory overlooking Castle Sands and the North Sea, in the Royal Burgh of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Construction began around 1200 and is attributed to Roger de Beaumont. The Bishops of St Andrews controlled the castle, which was their residence and palace.
Bishop Walter Trail rebuilt it around 1400, and Archbishop John Hamilton rebuilt it substantially after 1546. It was in use until around 1689, when the bishopric was abolished, and it then fell into ruin.
Surviving features include a south wall enclosing a square tower, the bottle dungeon, the kitchen tower and an underground mine and counter-mine from the siege of 1546. Historic Environment Scotland maintains the site as a scheduled monument.
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