NHER 8880 (Monument record) - Bayfield Hall

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Summary

Bayfield Hall was a large timber framed building, noted by the Ordnance Survey as an antiquity and apparently associated with a moat or earthworks. It is reported that the building was subdivided into cottages for some time, but that it was irrevocably damaged by a fire in the 1970s.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG00NE
Civil Parish RUNHALL, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Ordnance Survey antiquity.
Demolished according to Ordnance Survey card (S1), around the 1970s.

Farmer at Manor Farm stated that this was a large timber framed building which had been divided into cottages. Burnt down some time around 1970. [1]
E. Rose (NAU), Novemember 1980.

Source (S2) refer to Coston Church as standing 'near the ruins of some large building - query what has been?' Was this the building? Or perhaps Manor Farm (see NHER 16725?). No, the reference is to the archdeacon's palace, NHER 21233.
E. Rose (NAU), 6 November 1980.

Map of 1883 (S3) has 'Bayfield Hall, remains of' and 'moat' in Gothic text.
E. Rose (NLA), 26 November 2005.

  • --- Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Medieval. Runhall.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 00 NE 3b.
  • <S2> Documentary Source: Martin, T. c. 1700-1799. Collections of Church Notes. Norfolk Records Office. Walter Rye Collection. RYE 17.. c. 1730.
  • <S3> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1883. First edition six inch map.

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Record last edited

Feb 17 2022 8:31AM

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