The history of Britain and the aspirations of her Christian communities can be traced in the glorious excesses of the ...
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 ...
Coventry Cathedral took centre stage on the Channel 4 series Listed Britain, with Kevin McCloud calling it 'one of my favourite places on the planet.' He explored how the ruins and the new building ...
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 ...