Lyveden New Bield
I thought Lyveden New Bield was a ruin at first, but it's an unfinished lodge from Elizabethan times. It took a leafy single-track road and bumpy field to get there, somewhere in the Northamptonshire countryside.
Lyveden New Bield western view![Lyveden New Bield closeup western view](https://alexharford.uk/photos/lyveden-new-bield.jpg)
The gardens and lodge were constructed with Catholic symbolism by Sir Thomas Tresham from 1595, but remained unfinished after his death in 1605. He had two ancestral namesakes; Sir Thomas Tresham (1425 - 1471) who was executed and Sir Thomas Tresham (1498 - 1559) who was believed assassinated. After that history you'd think this Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 - 1605) might have a bit more luck, but he was Catholic at a time when Catholics were persecuted and met his death in 1605 - believed to have been murdered. His son, Francis Tresham, was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and died shortly after.
Moat and reflection of Lyveden New Bield![Blue skies with a photogenic view of a reflected Lyveden New Bield](https://alexharford.uk/photos/lyveden-new-bield-reflection-moat.jpg)
![View from New Bield of fields through silhouetted windows](https://alexharford.uk/photos/lyveden-new-bield-view-from-window.jpg)
![View over orchard backed by woods](https://alexharford.uk/photos/lyveden-new-bield-orchard.jpg)
![View to the sky from inside Lyveden New Bield](https://alexharford.uk/photos/lyveden-new-bield-inside.jpg)
Photos taken with the Canon Powershot G1 X.
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