Belchamp Hall
A Queen Anne country house of red brick housing the Raymond family collection of catholic taste.
Belchamp Walter, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 7AT
Belchamp Hall is a Queen Anne-period house of rich red brick with a front nine bays wide and of two storeys, below a cornice and solid parapet.
The Hall and its grounds are registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953, within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by English Heritage for its special historic interest. You can see the entry here on historicengland.org.uk.
- The house and estate was bought by the first John Raymond in 1611
- Interior wooden panelling from the Elizabethan / Jacobean era
- Original portraits by the great Thomas Gainsborough
- French marble statue, originally sent by King Louis XVI
Family portraits by well-known artists hang on the walls. One by Cornelius Janssen depicts the first John Raymond who bought the house and estate from Sir John Wentworth in 1611. Elizabethan portraits of Sir William and Lady Harris, whose daughter Frances married Oliver Raymond, M.P. for Essex in the two Protectorate parliaments, hang each side of the door. Sir William commanded a ship in the battle against the Spanish Armada and relics which he captured then, including an iron Treasure Chest with its original huge key, are still in the house.
