A priest hole is a hiding place for a priest built in England or Wales during the period when Catholics were persecuted by law. Following the accession...

the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. Owen built many priest holes in the buildings of English...

both the Babington and the Gunpowder plots, where it hid four people in priest holes. It was Humphrey Littleton who told the authorities that Edward Oldcorne...

suggested[according to whom?] that this rhyme refers to priest holes—hiding places for itinerant Catholic priests during the persecutions under King Henry VIII...

itself served as a secret place for the shelter of Catholic priests, with at least one priest-hole. This secret purpose of the house was to play a key part...

with an armed company and searched the house until they discovered the priest hole where Campion and two associates were hiding. They used a number of informants...

Southam (6 miles to the southeast). It has a 16th-century pub with a priest hole. The local school is the Radford Semele Church of England School. This...

that the ghost was first seen when a body was found bricked up in a priest hole. Architecturally, the castle consists of a keep, adjoining house and...

vehicle Priest (manhwa), a Korean Weird West comic Priest (TV series), a 2018 South Korean television series Priest hole, a hiding place for a priest built...

Crypto-papism Dissenter English Dissenters Dowry of Mary Nonconformism Papist Priest hole Roman Catholic (term) Catholic Church in Ireland Recusancy in Ireland...

opposite side of the street to the shrine, at number 35, which has a priest hole fireplace. These are also listed. 37–38 Shambles are late-15th century;...

Hole, MA (1710–1791) Vicar of Bishops Nympton was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 16 March 1745 to 26 October 1791. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Hole,...

Hastings travel to Waverly Court, where they learn of the existence of a priest hole near the room in which Johnnie was last seen. After examining its floor...

wing in the west. It was Grade I listed in January 1952. There is a priest hole. Several outbuildings, walls, and garden features at Pitchford are also...

hiding for so long, Garnet, accompanied by Oldcorne, emerged from his priest hole the next day. By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found,...

it during the Sack of Rome, in 1527. Catholic priests, in Britain, used hidden rooms called priest holes to escape Protestant persecution, starting from...

Lennox. Nevertheless, Henry (1568–1610) concealed priests at Drayton, with the house retaining one priest hole, and was heavily suspected of involvement in...

Catholic priests, who were under threat of a death sentence if discovered, and made special arrangements to hide and protect them. Several priest holes were...

Gerard wrote of many escapes from the law and of occasions when he hid in priest holes, which could often be as small as 1 meter tall and half a meter wide...

with more men and heavy weapons, so Bond sends M and Kincade through a priest hole to hide in a nearby chapel, and rigs propane tanks to explode. As the...

rooms were created in British castles to hide Catholic priests; these were referred to as priest holes. During the prohibition era, there were several examples...

presumptive of the 13th Earl of Carlisle. The castle has a well-preserved priest hole. Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, is said to have invented the...

Flemish bond; the two upper levels are rendered. The building contains a priest-hole fireplace. On the ground floor is a shrine to St Margaret Clitherow,...

locked room would be just another bullet hole in the wall like those created by past duels, and there is a priest hole to hide the person just seen entering...

decade earlier. The Catholic martyr Nicholas Owen, a noted builder of priest holes, died under torture on the rack in the Tower of London in 1606. Guy Fawkes...

in his clothes to confuse his enemies. He then hid himself in the old priest hole at Birlstone. The main narrative pauses to explain Douglas' past in America...

allegedly concealed inside a priest hole, but from whence O'Hurley covertly travelled to and from Cavan to visit with some fellow priests whom he had known while...

were rebuilt. A stable block was also added. The hall is known for its priest hole, constructed by Nicholas Owen. The Catholic Bedingfelds constructed the...

the location of the priest hole. Margaret was arrested and called before the York assizes for the crime of harbouring Catholic priests. She refused to plead...

Norrises were Roman Catholics so the house incorporated a priest hole and a special observation hole built into a chimney in a bedroom to allow the occupant...