Bayfield Hall is a Grade II*[2] listed building which stands in a small estate close to the village of Letheringsett and the hamlet of Glandford in the English county of Norfolk within the United Kingdom.

The main body of the building is built in a red-brown brick The name Bayfield devolved from the Anglo-Saxon language and has the meaning of the Open Field owned by the Bæga's.

Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, the manor of Bayfield had been owned by a freeman called Godric, but after 1066 he was ejected from the land.

During the reign of Edward I, the manor of Bayfield was owned by Sir John de Vaux,[10] along with Holt and Cley next the Sea.

Within a short period of time, Jermy and his fellow commissioners had sentenced twenty Royalists to death.

[11] This made Jermy unpopular within the Holt area as he was instrumental in the execution of a local man by the name of Thomas Cooper.

It seems people in power had longer memories of his questionable deeds, and his every move to achieve honours was blocked.

In the following year he was posted to Corfu, forming part of the garrison of the United States of the Ionian Islands, a British protectorate.

Alfred Jodrell is best remembered for his desire to benefit the local community after his good fortune in his inheritance of Bayfield Hall.

The nearby hamlet of Glanford village with its decaying cottages, he completely rebuilt, giving his estate workers a very comfortable and healthier living standard.

He spent a great deal of money on the village, especially on his project to rebuild the decrepit Saint Martin's church which he began in 1899.

[21] The church stands on the crest of a knoll within the village and he dedicated the renovations to his mother Adel Monckton Jodrell.

The church took seven years to complete employing a team of workers headed by two wood carvers from Great Yarmouth.

Other work on the church included a new hammer-beam roof with carved ends displaying shields, rood screen, choir stalls and marble floors with the stone imported from Italy.

He once hosted King George V who visited from his Norfolk home at Sandringham to attend a pheasant shoot on the estate organised by Jodrell.