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History | Architecture | The Moat | Life Account - 1946
The Moat at St. Peter’s Hall probably dates from the 11th
or 12th Century and would have extended originally right around
the house with a gatehouse on the site of the current brewery
and a track running due north towards the Bungay-Flixton Road.
We had it cleaned out and re-stocked with fish, mainly mirror
carp, in 1997.
Moats are quite common in East Anglia and are variously thought
to have been dug as a defence against the Vikings who raided
the area well into the Eleventh Century, as a source of standing
water for cattle, or as a source of clay for the bricks used
for the earliest house on the site. In fact, many later moats
were dug merely because they had become fashionable - great
houses and castles had moats so why not smaller houses? |
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