Quidenham Hall

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Quidenham Hall is a country house in Quidenham, Norfolk, England. People have lived on the site since about the year 1000. The property passed to the Bedingfeld family around 1400. In 1572 John Holland, a local Member of Parliament, bought the manor. The present house began around 1600 when his son Thomas started building it. The East Wing and West portico were added later by John Bristow. The house stayed with the Holland family until about 1800, when George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, bought it, and it stayed in the Keppel family after that. It was regularly visited by Edward VII in the early 20th century. In 1948 the house was bought from the Keppels by the Carmelites of Rushmere, Ipswich, and they turned it into a monastery for Carmelite nuns. In 1989 some cottages on the property, formerly used for staff housing by the Keppel family, were given to a hospice for sick children, now run by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, a charity supported by Catherine, Princess of Wales. Quidenham Hall itself remains with the Carmelite community. Location: 52.4498°N, 0.9894°E.