{{Short description|Grade II listed 18th-century farmhouse in Billingford, Breckland, Norfolk, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{for|the house in North Yorkshire|Beck House, Giggleswick}} '''Beck Hall, Bec Hall or Bek Hall''' is a [[grade II listed]] 18th-century farmhouse<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-220652-beck-hall-billingford-norfolk#.VhU0GG562So |title=Beck Hall - Billingford - Norfolk - England |publisher=British Listed Buildings |date=1951-12-04 |accessdate=2016-06-02}}</ref> in [[Billingford, Breckland]], [[Norfolk]], England. It is believed to be on the site of a former "hospital" or "hospice" (i.e. a hostel) adjacent to the Chapel of St Paul. The hospital was founded by William of Bec (or Beck): records go back before 1224 (in the reign of King Henry III).<ref>Index monasticus; or the abbeys and other monasteries, alien priories... Richard Taylor</ref><ref>Seals By Walter de Gray Birch; Bec, Billingford, Norfolk.</ref> The hospital was dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/norf/vol2/pp438-439 |title=Hospitals: Beck &#124; British History Online |website=British-history.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-06-02}}</ref> An early resident of Bec was Alanus Elfwold (1248).<ref>Humanistiska vetenskaps-samfundet; Lund, Louise Vinge C.W.K. Gleerup. vol. 72-74 p. 22</ref>

The hospital (moated) was on the main road between [[Norwich]] and [[Walsingham]] and was intended for the lodging for a single night of 13 poor travellers as they made their pilgrimage to the shrine of [[Our Lady of Walsingham]]. The hospital was, at an early date in its history, well endowed with the manors of Beck, Billingford, and Howe, and with certain lands and rents in upwards of thirty Norfolk parishes.

The hospital appears to have become a residence and may have been leased by The Church authorities before the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]]. In the second half of the 15th century at least three generations of the Curson (or Curzon) family, descendants of the [[Kedleston]] family, held Beck Hall in Norfolk.<ref>''The Visitation of Norfolk 1563 & 1613'' edited by Walter Rye, London 1891, p.91.</ref>

With the dissolution in the mid-16th century the property was granted to [[John Perrot|Sir John Perrot]].

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