Tresham celebrated his beliefs architecturally.
His most famous folly is theTriangular Lodgenear Rushton which is loaded with religious symbolism.
Designed on a plan reminiscent of a Greek cross, the facades have a strict symmetry.
The building has two floors above a raised basement, with mullioned and transomed windows.
Each floor has three rooms with a staircase in the south projection of the cross.
The bay windows has five sides each, the number five being a common symbol for Jesus and Mary.
The exterior of the building is decorated by friezes of a religious nature.
Lyveden New Bield was never completed.
Sir Thomas Tresham died in 1605 following decades of religious persecution, which severely depleted his wealth.
Franciss mother managed the estate until her death in 1615.
After this, Francis’s son Lewis Tresham, squandered the remaining family wealth.
The estate was eventually sold following the death of his son in 1643.
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