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Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corporn. For today's podcast, we're bringing you an editor's pick, in which a member of our team chooses one of their own personal highlights from our back catalogue.

Choosing today's episode was our production editor, Spencer Misen. The interview he wanted to share with you is a 2018 conversation with the historian Jesse Childs about Catholics in Elizabethan England.

Spencer had recently visited Russian Triangular Lodge, which is a symbolic folly built by the Catholic nobleman Thomas Tresham, for a feature for BBC History Magazine. And he spoke to Jesse to find out more about the wider history of Catholic persecution in the Elizabethan era.

So let's talk about Russian Triangular Lodge. It's amazing building in the Northamptonshire countryside. It was built by a Catholic gentleman called Sir Thomas Tresham. Can you tell me give me a bit of background about Sir Thomas Tresham? What kind of person was he?

Tresham was one of the most interesting Elizabethans you'll ever meet. He was a big man in Northamptonshire. He owned a lot of land there. He'd been sheriff in 1573. He'd actually been knighted by Elizabeth I in 1575.

And he was an intellectual. He loved reading. He was very well read. He was into mysticism. He was also really litigious. He'd trained in the law.

He loved getting into all sorts of legal battles, especially with his female relatives. But from 1580, when the Jesuit mission was launched in England, his faith became the most important thing for him, his Catholic faith.

And he was a very loud, proud, defiant Catholic. And he almost became a sort of the unofficial spokesman for the Catholics in England in the latter half of Elizabeth's reign.

OK, did his Catholicism inform his building of Russian triangular lodge?

Yeah, absolutely. He'd been in prison for about 12 years, either in the fleet, in London or in Ely, or otherwise under house arrest in Hoxton.

Mainly for recusancy, for refusing to go to Protestant church services every week. So he saw himself very much as a victim. And in 1593, he finally got to go home.

And this is when he builds the lodge. So it's kind of his way of saying, I'm still standing, you know.

What makes a lodge so spectacular, so unique?

Well, if you go there, you'll see it's just there's nothing like it anywhere. It's in the shape of a triangle. And it's covered in all sorts of symbolism.

Everything is geared towards the number three. You know, it's an equilateral triangle. There are there are three walls that each 33 feet long. There are three floors.

There are three windows on each floor. There are also trefoils on each wall, which are sort of club shaped emblems. They were in the treasure family arms as well.

So it's very much to sort of tribute to the Trinity, but it's more than that too. It's a testament to his faith and the endurance of his faith and strength in faith.

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