Hidden room linked to gunpowder plot revealed by 3D scans

The secrets of a hidden room in Coughton Court, a Tudor mansion linked to the plot to assassinate King James I in 1605, have been revealed in a new study. The double room was a hiding place for priests during the anti-Catholic persecutions of the 16th and 17th centuries and was leased by Sir Everard Digby, one of the leading conspirators of the plot. The room was discovered in the 1850s, but has now been revealed in more detail than ever before with the help of 3D laser scanners. The secrets of a hidden room in Coughton Court, a Tudor mansion linked to the plot to assassinate King James I in 1605 have been revealed in a new study. In 1605 Coughton Court was leased to Sir Everard Digby, one of the leading conspirators of the plot to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I. On the evening of the plot, Sir Everard's wife was waiting anxiously for news at Coughton alongside Father Henry Garnet, the head of the Jesuit mission in England, and Nicholas Owen, the celebrated priest-hole maker.