Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The family had remained recusant Catholics, celebrating Mass in the saloon of Coughton Court, which acted as a chapel. [3] Evidence of this recusancy are still evident in the house today. A double priest hole is present in the tower of the house, elucidating the role the house played in the celebration of the Catholic faith in this period. [4]
Coughton Court / ˈ k oʊ t ən / [1] (grid reference) is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire. It is a Grade I listed building . The house has a long crenellated façade directly facing the main road, at the centre of which is the Tudor Gatehouse, dating from after 1536; this ...
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 of Queen Elizabeth I to the throne in 1558, there were several Catholic plots designed to remove her, [1] and severe measures, including torture and execution, were taken against Catholic priests.
[6]: 58, 40, 72, 99 There is no reason to think the turret hide at Coughton Court in Warwickshire is Owen's work. [6]: 234 Due to the ingenuity of his craftsmanship, some may still be undiscovered. A priest hole in the staircase made by Nicholas Owen in a 16th-century manor-house, Harvington Hall, Worcestershire.
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Hamka’s death came after Loughnane subjected her to what Justice Christopher Beale described as a "torrent of highly abusive text messages" in which he threatened to torture her, drown her, set ...
A man has admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a knife in an attack at the family home. Carol Hunt, 61, was stabbed to death and Hannah Hunt ...
Sir Robert Throckmorton, 1st Baronet, (1599–1650). By unknown artist, 17th-century English. Throckmorton Collection, Coughton Court, Warwickshire. Property of the National Trust, NTPL ref. no. 153578. Sir Robert Throckmorton, 1st Baronet (1599–1650) was created a baronet, of Coughton, co. Warwick, on 1 September 1642.