Bidenly Hall

Bidenly is a manor house in Suffolk, which has been home to the Springs, Barons Lavenham, since 1845. It is situated between the towns of Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds. It has been the birth place of every Baron Lavenham since.
Before the hall was bought by Henry Spring, 7th Baron Lavenham, the house belonged to the Skinner family of Stowmarket, a minor banking family of the region. The hall, along with around 1500 acres, was purchased for the Spring family when the ancestral home at Pakenham became too expensive to keep.
Today, the house is private, but sometimes open to the public on bank holidays. It contains an extensive collection of art, with many portraits of Spring family members dating from the time of Thomas Spring III in the 1500s. The building itself is late-medieval in appearance, centred around a great hall with small crenellated towers on the two wings. The house also has a small chapel.

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