Rushton

This Triangular Lodge was built for Thomas Tresham in 1595 from of limestone and ironstone this folly just outside of Rushton makes a play on the number 3. Tresham a Roman Catholic and in addition to paying almost £8,000 in fines, was imprisoned for a total of fifteen years in the late 16th century for refusing to become a Protestant. On his release in 1593, he designed the Lodge as a protestation of his faith. His belief in the Holy Trinity is represented everywhere in the Lodge by the number three.

Thomas Tresham died in 1605 and his son, Francis, having become involved in the Gunpowder Plot, died imprisoned as a traitor in the Tower of London a few months later.