Attractions in Coventry

13 places from our Coventry guide, from Coventry city centre. Each links to its area guide and, where we have one, its official site.

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Attractions

Attractions in Coventry

13 places

Cook Street Gate, Coventry city centreOther sight
City gate

Cook Street Gate

One of two surviving gates of the medieval city walls, and the only one a road still runs through.

Outdoor
  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideDirections
Coventry Cathedral, Coventry city centreCathedral or church
Cathedral

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.

Indoor
  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideOfficial siteDirections
Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry city centreMuseum
Museum

Coventry Transport Museum

Large public collection of British-made road transport: more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles and 200 bicycles.

Indoor
  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideOfficial siteDirections
Holy Trinity Church, Coventry city centreCathedral or church
Church

Holy Trinity Church

Parish church beside the cathedral, known for the doom wall painting above its chancel arch.

Indoor
  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideOfficial siteDirections
Lady Godiva statue, Coventry city centreOther sight
Statue

Lady Godiva statue

Bronze equestrian statue of Lady Godiva, titled Self Sacrifice, on a Portland stone plinth in Broadgate.

Outdoor
  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideDirections
Old Cathedral ruins, Coventry city centreCathedral or church
Ruined cathedral

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.

  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideOfficial siteDirections
Spon Street, Coventry city centreOther sight
Historic street

Spon Street

Historic street on the old route from Gosford to Birmingham, with some of the city's surviving timber-framed buildings.

  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideDirections
The Charterhouse, Coventry city centreOther sight
Historic building

The Charterhouse

Grade I listed building incorporating remains of a Carthusian priory founded in 1381, south-east of the centre.

  • Coventry city centre, Coventry
In our guideDirections

By area

Things to do by area in Coventry

Each link opens the area guide with the full descriptions, photos and directions.

More about Coventry: the Coventry guide, free things to do and UK museums and galleries.

Other destinations

How the flags work

What we show, and what we leave out

Every flag below comes from a source you can open. Where we hold no report, the list says "not stated" or shows nothing: it does not guess. Check the venue before you travel, because prices, hours and booking rules change.

  • Type. Our own grouping of each place's kind in our destination guides (for example museum, castle or garden). It is a filter, not a rating.
  • Entry (free or paid). Shown only where the venue's own website says so in plain words, read on Oct 25, 2026. 0 places here are marked free and 0 paid; the other 13 are not stated. "Free" means general admission: special exhibitions, events and facilities can still be charged. The words we relied on are on the sources page.
  • Booking. We have not yet read a venue page that advises booking for these places, so there is no booking filter. Check each official site.
  • Step-free. Reported status only, from OpenStreetMap contributors or the venue's own access page: 0 places have a step-free or partly step-free report. The step-free filter hides places with no report; that does not mean they are not accessible. Contact the venue.
  • Indoor or outdoor. Our rules for the kind of place (4 indoor, 0 partly covered, 2 outdoor; the rest are not classed). It says nothing about opening hours or shelter on the day.
  • Family-friendly. Places marked family-friendly in our guides (0 so far).
  • Nearest to me. Straight-line distance from the position your device reports when you choose it. The position stays in your browser.
  • Saved on this device. Places you have saved with the heart. They are kept in this browser only, and appear in My trip.

Sources

  1. Our destination guides: the places, descriptions and positions come from their "Things to do" pages, which link each venue's official site.
  2. Venue websites, read on Oct 25, 2026 for free-entry, admission-price and booking wording. Each flag and the words behind it: flag sources.
  3. OpenStreetMap contributors (opens in new tab), for reported step-free tags.
  4. Our free things guide, which lists places whose own websites say entry is free.