Coventry Cathedral is 100 years old. On September 6, 1918, the Diocese of Coventry was officially formed - and the magnificent medieval church of St Michael's was given cathedral status. St Michael's, ...
In November 1940, German bombers destroyed much of the city centre of Coventry and reduced the city's medieval cathedral to rubble. Just 22 years later, in May 1962, a new cathedral designed by Basil ...
It took only five minutes for Scottish Architect Basil Spence, standing in the bombed-out shell of Coventry Cathedral one day in 1950, to conceive a design for the new cathedral. “I knew my task was ...
People have been invited to take part in building a huge cardboard model that will echo the old Coventry Cathedral, to mark 85 years since the blitz. Taking its cue from the cathedral ruins, ...