Harvington Hall

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Harvington Hall near Kidderminster, Worcestershire is an Elizabethan moated manor house dating mainly back to the 1580’s. It contains an ingenious series of “priest holes” – secret hiding places for members of the Catholic clergy trying to avoid persecution, torture and even execution in Elizabeth I’s Protestant England:

© Mark Simms Photography (2014)

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