Harvington Hall in Worcestershire contains the finest surviving set of priest holes in England, built by the architect Nicholas Owen. The house was repeatedly searched by Elizabethan pursuivants. Despite searches the network survived for decades. Its story illustrates the cat-and-mouse nature of Elizabethan recusancy enforcement — the government could apply pressure but could not fully destroy a determined and architecturally sophisticated Catholic network.
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