Licenced last week: Lyveden New Bield, near Oundle, Northamptonshire. Not a house in ruins, but an Elizabethan summer house built for Sir Thomas Tresham, a fervent Roman Catholic, and left unfinished when he died in 1605. The house, in plan, is strictly symmetrical, based on a Greek cross, featuring many religious symbols…
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