Shortly after Chartres Cathedral Maze was finished we came across a plan of the Walls of Troy maze. In a Shire Publications book called Mazes, Adrian Fisher and Diana Kingham say Walls of Troy in Holderness, Humberside, was an unusually shaped maze some 40 feet (12 metres) in diameter. It was destroyed after 1815.
The same book explains that mazes are of pagan origin but were adopted and adapted
by the Christian church. It says The earliest surviving full-
Ironically, the unusual shape of the Walls of Troy maze was that it had twelve sides. Our Chartres Cathedral Maze would have had twelve sides if we hadn’t deliberately changed it to make it circular. The natural form it had wanted to take was twelve sides so we started again letting the background take its own shape.
The walls are applied in exactly the same pattern as for Chartres Cathedral Maze. It is only the background that makes them look different.
Walls of Troy and Chartres Cathedral Maze are included in the same pattern as they are so similar.
