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 ...

Nowadays, architects have almost as few calls for cathedrals as for pyramids or royal palaces. When Coventry decided to build a new cathedral to replace the one destroyed by the Luftwaffe in 1940, the ...

Coventry, England — Lady GODIVA, the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, is said to have ridden naked through the streets of Coventry in the 11th century. Today, the city of 300,000 has little more than ...

Images taken this weekend show underneath some of the most historic buildings in Coventry city centre. 300 year old townhouses 9 and 10 Priory were open to a select few recently ahead of potential ...

Artworks will be projected onto the walls of the cathedral during the performance's premier on 27 January The 60th anniversary of Coventry Cathedral is being marked by poetry, art and a new war ...