The Tricorn was designed by Owen Ludor in 1963. It was completed in 1966, built by Taylor Woodrow, the company that now intends to destroy it. Completing the Portsea Island ley line, it marked a moment of ‘harmony’. Many of the prehistoric mounds are lost, but the Tricorn still protects the site of a Druid grove, a ground which Palmerston could not walk upon. It completed the line which tells the truth. Ironically, it worked, and the Tricorn became a symbol of resistance against that which conceals ‘things’ beneath surfaces, consumerism. Now those who built it - who rely on deflective surfaces - intend to pull it down.

The Tricorn is a process, it is an active construct, which shreds ideology, even that which constructed it (it is nonist). It is connected, by alignment, to Portsmouth cathedral, the triangular enclosure at Hilsea and to churches at Landport and North End. It also passes through the ‘golden’ bust of Charles 1st (which is made of lead). Myth says that if this head is removed the city will fall, but this story reflects the enclosure of the city into the monarch’s head. The city will fall if the Tricorn is removed. The legend of the royal bust is a folk echo of the ‘Celtic’ cult of the severed head, which reclaimed its potency during the reign of Charles.