Monument record BCB 016 - Ballingdon Hall
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Summary
Location
| Grid reference | Centred TL 8640 4041 (100m by 100m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TL84SE |
| Civil Parish | SUDBURY, BABERGH, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (3)
Full Description
Site, up until 1972, of mid C16 H-plan House built by Thomas Eden, a prosperous Sudbury citizen on `confiscated estate of the Dominican Friars Sudbury'. House moved 1,000 yards to new site in 1972 (S1). Also chantry chapel (S2).
Map of Hall and Estate (R1).
Also note that in 1380 the Dominican Friars (see SUY 005) were granted a piece of land, 20ft square, against Ballingdon Hall (an earlier version?, and location?) which contained a spring. Richard II granted a licence for "a certain suberraneous aqueduct from the aforesaid spring into the house of the aforesaid Prior and Friars of Sudbury, for the bringing of water from the said spring to the said house, through the king's highway and common river of Sudbury...' The aqueduct was in the form of a pear shaped lead pipe and fragments have been unearthed from time to time (information from an exhibition in Sudbury by B Wall (in the 1990s?).
Sources/Archives (4)
- <R1> SSF16414 (No record type): Plan of Ballingdon Hall Estate, The Property of J Sterling 1836, Essex Record Office, D/D Ga.
- <S1> SSF228 (No record type): Andrews S P, `The Moving of Ballingdon Hall', Article `Suffolk Fair', Vol 4, 1, 14-15, August 1974.
- <M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. (S1).
- <S2> SSF7581 (No record type): Hodson W W, `Ballingdon Bridge and the Sudbury Stour', PSIA, 8, 1892, 21.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jul 4 1996 12:00AM