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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by everyone on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:43AM (#22423965)
Me and my friend once discovered one when we were kids.. Dunno what age we were, say 8.. We were exploring this abandoned country estate house that was near his house.. In a library there was one shelf that was still filled with books, turns they were fake books and the shelf was a door. It led to a stone staircase going down to a little underground chapel.. It was super creepy at the time.. Awesome experience tho. I still remember it obvs.

That house has since been done up and is a super posh hotel / golf course now. Now called 'Faithlegg house hotel'.

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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by MockObject on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:32AM (#22424476)
I wonder why anyone would take such pains to hide an innocent chapel.
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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by jpollock on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:44AM (#22424639)
If it was in the UK, there was a period of time when the monarch was Catholic and burned Protestants at the stake and then the monarch changed and then the Catholics started getting burned. People of the "wrong" religion would have to practice in secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole

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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by whatshisface on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:10PM (#22424940)
And ironically, the people who would be the best off would be the atheists who were willing to pretend to go along with whatever was in control at the time.
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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by EvilGrin on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:44AM (#22424640)
If this was in England it may of been an extended priest hole to hide Catholic Priests after the reformation. If there was an entire chapel hidden away it may of been for said priest to conduct mass for the Catholic household in secret.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole

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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by Macha on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:37PM (#22429157)
In this case it's in Ireland, but since it was under English control at the time, it would likely be the same.
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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by MrL567 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:42AM (#22424609)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_church

Hidden chapels are fairly common in Europe during the Reformation when one could not be a practicing Catholic in a Protestant country and vice versa.

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Re:Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treas... by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:50PM (#22426593)
There was also a fashion for adding architectural follies, for example there's a tomb in Sir John Soane's home (complete with an egyptian sarcophagus, oddly in spite of its otherwise sort of Italian vibe)[1]

1: http://explore.soane.org/#/section/sepulchral

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