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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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