Pevsner in Suffolk

Pictures of buildings mentioned in the “Suffolk” volume of “The Buildings of England” series by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. The page references on this site are to the second edition, revised by Enid Radcliffe (Yale University Press 2002: ISBN 0 300 09648 8). The first edition was published in 1961 and the revised edition in 1974 but was first published by Yale UP in 2002 and this is the edition currently available from any bookseller (a newer version is still in preparation in 2010). This site is intended to be used in conjunction with the book, so descriptions and comment on the buildings are mostly very light or omitted except where they involve mediaeval or Tudor bricks (where Suffolk is especially important), the dukes of Suffolk, gilds and gildhalls, and where the information can be expanded from other sources.

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With a few exceptions the photographs do not include Churches, which are very well represented on a Suffolk Churches web-site. Some Chapels, Meeting Houses etc are included.

Towns and villages covered are listed below (click on “Suffolk” at the top of the pages to return here). If you just want somewhere to start try Lavenham, Kersey or Ipswich. The number of photographs on each page are in brackets.

ABC

Aldeburgh (22); Alderton (1); Bardwell (4): Barsham (6); Bawdsey (2); Beccles (27); Bedfield (5); Bildeston (14); Brandeston (1); Boxford (11); Bramfield (3); Bruisyard (10); Bulcamp (9); Bungay (26); Bures (35); Bury St Edmunds (51); Butley (1); Cavendish (4); Chelsworth (17); Clare (18); Cotton (4); Crowfield (5)

DEF

Debenham (18); Dunwich (8); East Bergholt (7); Erwarton (7); Euston Hall (12); Eye (17); Felixstowe (12); Finningham (1); Flatford (6); Framlingham (21); Framsden (4); Fressingfield (7); Freston (8); Frostenden (2)

GHI

Gislingham (3); Great Saxham (8); Great Thurlow (9); Hacheston (1); Hadleigh (39); Halesworth (16); Helmingham (2); Heveningham Hall (11); Hintlesham (1); Hitcham (1); Horham (3); Ilketshall St Andrew (1); Ipswich (67)

JKL

Kelsale (4); Kersey (18); Knodishall (3); Langham (3); Lavenham (37); Laxfield (5); Leiston (8); Lindsey (7); Little Glemham (5); Little Wenham (4); Long Melford (24)

MNO

Martlesham (3); Mendham (2); Mettingham (3); Nayland (14); Needham Market (19); Nettlestead (7); Newbourne (1); Orford (3); Otley (17)

PQRS

Parham (5); Peasenhall (2); Pettistree (2); Polstead (11); Rumburgh (3); Saxmundham (3); Shrubland Park (2); Sizewell (1); Snape (13); South Elmham St Cross (6); Somersham (1); South Elmham St Peter (3); Southwold (24); Stoke by Nayland (6); Stowlangtoft (1); Stowupland (10); Stratford St Mary (1+); Sudbury (20); Syleham (1);

TUV

Thorington Hall (6); Thorpeness (20); Ufford (3)

WXYZ

Walpole (3); Westhorpe (5); West Stow (19); Wickham Market (4); Wingfield (12); Witnesham (2); Woodbridge (23); Woolverstone (2); Wrentham (2); Yaxley (1); Yoxford (6)

Guildhalls - or Gildhalls: Guildhall, Gildhall, Gild Hall, Guild Hall, Guild House, gild, guild, gylde, geld.

Bardwell; Badwell Ash; Bungay Merchants House, formerly Gildhall; Bury St Edmunds; Clare; Debenham; Eye; Gislingham; Guild Hall of Corpus Christi, Lavenham; Hitcham; Laxfield; Fressingfield Gild House; Hadleigh; Kelsale; Stoke by Nayland; Yaxley; Withersfield; Wrentham.

Doubtfully: Pettistree Church house

An A - Z of Suffolk gildhalls: A - D; E - G; H - N; O - Z

More on gilds

Significant buildings:

Alston Court; Ancient House, Ipswich; Bardwell Hall; Bell House, East Bergholt; Bevills - a.k.a Great Bevills; Bruisyard Hall; Butley Priory; Cockfield Hall; Columbine Hall; Crows Hall; Euston Hall; Erwarton Gatehouse; Flatford Mill; Framlingham Castle; Great Thurlow Hall; Heveningham Hall; High Hall, Nettlestead; Hintlesham Hall; Leiston Abbey; Little Wenham Hall; Melford Hall; Moat Hall, Parham; Moot Hall, Aldeburgh; Orford Castle; Otley Hall; Parham Old Hall; Priest’s house, Stratford St Mary; Roos Hall; Saxham Hall; Shire Hall, Woodbridge; Shrubland Park; Sparrowe’s House, Ipswich; St James’s Chapel, Lindsey; Thorington Hall; Thorpe Hall; Tide Mill, Woodbridge; West Stow Hall; Willie Lott’s cottage; Wingfield Castle; Yaxley Hall.

Barns:

Crows Hall; Framsden Hall; Little Wenham; Wingfield.

Not in Pevsner (20)

Dukes of Suffolk