What lies beneath

EXTREMELY rare 16th-century wall paintings of fantastical beasts and foliage, recently discovered at a former Tudor hunting lodge in Cumbria, are now protected on the advice of Historic England. In the 1970s, some paintings were discovered on the first floor of The Ashes, at Castle Sowerby in Inglewood Forest; even more were found during works in the 2010s and since 2020. ‘Removing old failing plaster to find these remarkable motifs and faces looking back at us is a moment we will never forget,’...