We just need to make sure all furniture for that room is built into it — because there is no getting anything bigger than a shoebox up those stairs to furnish it.
Maybe it was to a safe room–like castles that had rooms to hide priests or ministers back in the day when Catholics and Protestants battled.
Tim is correct. They are called priest holes in the UK and date from far earlier than Victorian times. The mid 16th. Century to be precise. Jesuit priests were hidden in specially constructed priest holes in Catholic houses to avoid being captured, tortured and put to death.
We just need to make sure all furniture for that room is built into it — because there is no getting anything bigger than a shoebox up those stairs to furnish it.
Maybe it was to a safe room–like castles that had rooms to hide priests or ministers back in the day when Catholics and Protestants battled.
Tim is correct. They are called priest holes in the UK and date from far earlier than Victorian times. The mid 16th. Century to be precise. Jesuit priests were hidden in specially constructed priest holes in Catholic houses to avoid being captured, tortured and put to death.