Triangular Lodge
One of the few triangular buildings in England; it was built by Sir Thomas
Tresham in about 1595 at Rushton, Northamptonshire. Tresham was a Catholic
(spending some 15 years in prison because of this) and also a mystic numerologist.
The whole design of the Lodge is based on the number three,
which Tresham saw connected with his own surname and as an expression of
his faith in the Christian Trinity. The Lodge's ground plan is a perfect
equilateral triangle, each side 33 feet long – by tradition, the age
of Christ at his death. The building has three floors, each floor has three
windows, and each window is a three-fold trefoil. There are three gables
and three gargoyles on each side. Even the central chimney is three-sided.
The inscriptions all have 33 letters. Other buildings with a three-sided
equilateral theme in Europe include a triangular castle at Gripsholm in
Sweden and part of the Chateau de Chantilly in France, which is based on
an equilateral plan of gigantic scale.
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