Sir John Trevanion, a Royalist during the English Civil War, is said to have escaped from Colchester Castle, where he was held prisoner, thanks to a letter which hided a message "PANEL AT EAST END OF CHAPEL SLIDES". But nobody seems to know a primary source of this famous episode, as I pointed out in 2012 in Qest for "Trevanion's Cipher".
Now I learned from Paul Hodgett that the same question was raised by his father Michale Hodgett decades ago. In his notes, Michael, an expert on priest holes, observes that the chapel was on the second floor and the wall was thick enough for hiding a mural passage.
Now I updated the page with this architectural observation.
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