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A '''priest hole''' was a room built in [[English]] [[Catholic]] homes during the late [[16th century]] while Catholics were being legally persecuted. | {{first pic|Priest hole (TGP).jpg|A priest hole in the [[Duck & Drake]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Gunpowder Plot (video game)}})}} | ||
A '''priest hole''' was a room built in [[English]] [[Catholic]] homes during the late [[16th century]] while Catholics were being legally persecuted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') | |||
During the [[Jacobean era]], anybody found carrying symbols of the Catholic religion, or taking part in Catholic mass, was fined or imprisoned. Catholic priests were often tortured, and if found guilty of treason, were executed. Many wealthy Catholic families celebrated mass in secret in their homes, hiding priests in specially constructed hiding places to protect them. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Gunpowder Plot (video game)}}) | |||
[[The Doctor]]'s house in [[London]], [[107 Baker Street]], had a priest hole hidden behind the [[mirror]] in the [[attic]] [[bedroom]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') | [[The Doctor]]'s house in [[London]], [[107 Baker Street]], had a priest hole hidden behind the [[mirror]] in the [[attic]] [[bedroom]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The White Room (audio story)|The White Room]]'') | ||
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A priest hole was a room built in English Catholic homes during the late 16th century while Catholics were being legally persecuted. (AUDIO: The White Room)
During the Jacobean era, anybody found carrying symbols of the Catholic religion, or taking part in Catholic mass, was fined or imprisoned. Catholic priests were often tortured, and if found guilty of treason, were executed. Many wealthy Catholic families celebrated mass in secret in their homes, hiding priests in specially constructed hiding places to protect them. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot [+]Loading...["The Gunpowder Plot (video game)"])
The Doctor's house in London, 107 Baker Street, had a priest hole hidden behind the mirror in the attic bedroom. (AUDIO: The White Room)
Harney Hall had a priest hole. (AUDIO: The Devil's Armada)
When Roundheads and Royalists attacked each other in the village of Little Hodcombe in 1643, Will Chandler took refuge from the violence in a priest hole. (TV: The Awakening)
The priory owned by Marcus Scarman had a priest hole which Scarman and his brother Laurence had discovered when they were children. Laurence, the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith later used it to hide from three Osiran service robots. (TV: Pyramids of Mars)
Clyde Langer and Luke Smith escape from the nuns at St Agnes Abbey using the priest hole tunnels. (PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon)
