I truly love this, and everything it says about how one can live through extreme times and still witness to the substantiality of homeliness and splendor, symbolism and rock-solid matter, grandeur and peace. In my estimation, it is a masterpiece of what Tolkien deemed "sub-creation".
Mitsui describes the interior:
Inside the house is remarkably plain, providing compact and simple accommodation for a gamekeeper or someone of similar status. The building is often referred to in the Rushton estate documents as The Warryners Lodge. Not a lavish palace, an impressive stately home, or a romantic country manor house, just a bizarre little dwelling created by the imaginative, perhaps slightly eccentric, mind of a devout Catholic man. Even if the religious connotations seem a bit heavy going and difficult to interpret, the fascination of identifying some of the emblems, and trying to understand how Thomas Tresham's mind worked, invites a compelling investigation of the lodge.
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