, rebuilt by Henry Heydon Henry Heydon was the son of
John Heydon (d. 1479) of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and Eleanor Winter, the daughter of Edmund Winter (d. 1448) of
Barningham, Norfolk. Trained as a lawyer, he frequently advised other Norfolk landowners. He served as a
justice of the peace in Norfolk from 1473, and on various commissions in that county and elsewhere. Heydon's inheritance from his father included at least sixteen manors, and he added to his holdings through the purchase of lands in both Norfolk and Kent. One of his purchases in Kent was
West Wickham, where he built
Wickham Court, and after establishing himself in Kent, he served as
justice of the peace there in the late 1480s and in the 1490s. Heydon acted as steward in Norfolk to
Katherine Woodville, the widow of
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, in the 1490s. He was a supervisor of the will of
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and served as steward of her household and chief bailiff on one of her estates. Heydon was knighted at the coronation of
Henry VII, and attended the arrival of
Catherine of Aragon in England in 1501, but mostly he was "primarily a local servant of the crown rather than a courtier". Some of Heydon's wealth, as a sheep farmer was expended in building projects. He completed the castle at Baconsthorpe, restored the church at
Kelling, and built a new church at
Salthouse, and constructed a causeway between
Thursford and
Walsingham. In Kent he rebuilt the church at
West Wickham, and built a fortified manor house. Heydon died at Baconsthorpe between 20 February and 22 May 1504, and was interred in
Norwich Cathedral in a now-vanished family chapel. A memorial window, said to be his, in the church at West Wickham depicts a kneeling human skeleton, with the Heydon arms. ==Marriage and issue==