A 3d model of Paston Hall was one of the requirements set out in the Paston Footprints project.

 

Paston Hall was one of four prominent Paston places to be fully modeled, the others being Bromholme Priory, Oxnead Hall, and Gresham Castle.

 

We know little about Paston Hall despite it being the seat of the Pastons since Medieval times, however, there are tantalising snippets of information.

 

We know of a ‘Tudor Farmhouse’ that existed on the site well after the Hall was demolished in the 18th century. The gatehouse was described as having two extensive cellars and built from flint and stone.

In terms of the Hall itself, we know that there was a chapel, but not its whereabouts. We also know that the Hall was partly destroyed by fire during the reign of King Henry VIII and was replaced by a ‘great rose-coloured mansion’ that appears in a portrait of Sir William Paston
(1528–1610). 

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Francis Blomfield gives us a few more details when he visited the hall in a ruinous state, we have a water-colour of the ruins by Josiah Boydell which appeared in the Fenn letters, but this depiction was dismissed as inaccurate by Tinley-Spurdens who remembers the ruins differently.

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All of the available evidence is assessed in the blog posts below.

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Find out more about the Paston story at the thisispaston website.

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