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Cathédrale
Coventry Cathedral
St Michael's Cathedral, consecrated in 1962 right beside the ruins of the old cathedral; Jacob Epstein's St Michael sculpture is on its east wall.
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Coventry city centre: things to do
Places worth your time in Coventry city centre
Lieux incontournables
Things to do in Coventry city centre
Monuments, musées, parcs et points de vue dans le quartier et ses environs.
Cathédrale en ruine
Old Cathedral ruins
Shell of the 14th-century church of St Michael, a cathedral from 1918, bombed in the Second World War; its 87-metre tower and spire survive.
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Musée
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Museum, art gallery and records archive on Jordan Well, next to the cathedral quarter.
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Musée
Coventry Transport Museum
Large public collection of British-made road transport: more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles and 200 bicycles.
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Bâtiment historique
St Mary's Guildhall
Grade I listed medieval guildhall on Bayley Lane, open for visits, with a tea room and restaurant.
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Église
Holy Trinity Church
Parish church beside the cathedral, known for the doom wall painting above its chancel arch.
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Statue
Lady Godiva statue
Bronze equestrian statue of Lady Godiva, titled Self Sacrifice, on a Portland stone plinth in Broadgate.
Archaeological site
St Mary's Priory remains
Excavated remains of the medieval priory and first cathedral of Coventry, destroyed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Rue historique
Spon Street
Historic street on the old route from Gosford to Birmingham, with some of the city's surviving timber-framed buildings.
Théâtre
Belgrade Theatre
The first civic theatre built in Britain after the Second World War, now Grade II listed.
Bâtiment historique
Ford's Hospital
Grade I listed half-timbered almshouse founded by the merchant William Ford in 1509.
Bâtiment historique
Bond's Hospital
Almshouse built in 1506 around a courtyard on Hill Street and still used as charitable housing; Grade II* listed.
Porte de la ville
Cook Street Gate
One of two surviving gates of the medieval city walls, and the only one a road still runs through.
Bâtiment historique
The Charterhouse
Grade I listed building incorporating remains of a Carthusian priory founded in 1381, south-east of the centre.
Crédits photos
- Coventry city centre (area photo): Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Coventry Cathedral: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Old Cathedral ruins: Andrew Walker (walker44), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Herbert Art Gallery & Museum: E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Coventry Transport Museum: Jim Linwood from London, CC BY 2.0, source
- St Mary's Guildhall: Snowmanradio, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Holy Trinity Church: Kanyocsaba, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lady Godiva statue: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- St Mary's Priory remains: E Gammie, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Spon Street: habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Belgrade Theatre: Herry Lawford, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ford's Hospital: Jim Linwood, CC BY 2.0, source
- Bond's Hospital: Paul Coles (Wikipedia Takes Coventry participant), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cook Street Gate: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Charterhouse: Carmen McLean-Ellmann, Oliver Ellmann (Wikipedia Takes Coventry participant), CC BY 3.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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