NHER 12439 (Monument record) - Site of Prior's Hall, Gayton [Gayton, Poorly Located]

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Summary

This hall is recorded as being built in 1587 and having Jacobean panels in the kitchen. The hall has now been demolished, but it may have been located at the site of modern Well Hall (NHER 3593)

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  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet Not recorded
Civil Parish GAYTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Prior's Hall.
1587, had Jacobean panels in the kitchen. This description in (S1) about 1900, but not on Ordnance Survey now, the village post office has never heard of it.
E. Rose (NAU), 15 April 1977.

Both (S2) and 1883 (S3) do not name this, or show a large house now gone, so if (S4) is correct it must have been a small house dignified by the name of 'hall'.
E. Rose (NLA).

[1] thinks this may have been the building that preceded Well Hall (NHER 3593).

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: Bolingbroke family. 1300's-1960. Bolingbroke Collection. Norfolk Record Office.
  • <S2> Map: Burcham, C.. 1839. Gayton Tithe Map.
  • <S3> Map: Ordnance Survey, First Edition, 6 Inch. 1879-1886. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6 inch map..
  • <S4> Monograph: Bryant, J.. 1900. Norfolk Churches..

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Record last edited

Aug 24 2023 3:08PM

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