The historic cathedral city of Coventry has become a boarded-up ghost town, says one resident who wants to leave after living ...
Kathy Coolican has spent her entire adult life in Coventry, after moving there with her husband in the early 1960s. It was ...
The one-time Medieval treasure and hive of industry, home to one of the tallest and most beautiful cathedrals in the land, was practically obliterated by the Luftwaffe on a single night in 1940 in a ...
Coventry Cathedral is asking artists to apply to exhibit work to temporarily replace a vandalised window. The artwork will stand in place of the Angel of Eternal Gospel, in the cathedral's West ...
Sketches that led to the creation of a centrepiece at Coventry Cathedral have been acquired by the venue after a fundraising appeal. Engraver John Hutton took 10 years to carve 66 figures into the ...
Several of England’s historic cathedrals were damaged in bombing raids during the Second World War. None suffered so terribly as the Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry. Coventry had suffered a ...
Blitz, recession and industrial decline have threatened the very existence of the city at the very heart of England ...
After Cnut became king of England one of his acts was to install Leofric as ... so the king ordered the site destroyed. Thus the first Coventry Cathedral was the only English cathedral to be destroyed ...
Coventry Cathedral was rebuilt after the Second World War beside ... That's it for this episode but do join us next time as we uncover two more important locations in England's Art, Architecture, & ...
The Gothic cathedral, St Michael's of Coventry, was destroyed on the night ... In the 13th century England's greatest carpenter, William Lyngewode, spent four years decorating the cathedral's ...
Explore how the architecture of the English high street has evolved over the centuries. Medieval English towns were famously filled with narrow streets so to maximise space. It was common to build ...
For the next 379 years, Coventry had no cathedral, but changing patterns of population settlement meant that a major reorganisation of Church of England diocese structure was inevitable, and in 1918 ...