COVENTRY ( revisited ).

I have covered Coventry in a previous blog but has I was sorting through the huge amount of photographs I have accumulated over the years, I came across a few more about Coventry, so here they are.

COOK STREET GATE.

 

Completed circa 1385 as part of the medieval town hall, which was demolished in 1662 by order of Charles II. Only two town gates have  survived from the original twelve, this is the only functional gate. Presented to the city by Col.W.F.Wyley in 1913 and restored in 1918. The building is now a scheduled ancient monument.

 

 

 

View of the gate from the other side.

 

 

In the centre of the wooden arch beams.

 

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ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH.

 

This is a 14th century church.

 

 

 

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ST MICHAEL`S THE OLD CATHEDRAL.

 

Some more photos of the ruined St Michaels which I had not added to the last blog I did on Coventry.

 

 

St Michael's tower, the only part that is not in ruins from the bombing of Coventry in world war two.

 

 

 

 

 

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MEDIEVAL SPON STREET.

 

Spon street is an historic street in central Coventry, in the west midlands of England.. The street was once part of a route that ran from Gosford, in Oxfordshire to Birmingham - a route which remained intact until the 1960`s. With the construction of Coventry`s inner ring road, built to relieve traffic on the narrow city centre streets, Spon street was cut in half and the route severed. These photos are some of the medieval buildings on this street. They are used by a variety of shops and a public house (pub). Some of these buildings are not original to the street, but have been rebuilt there after being saved from demolition in other streets and a preservation order is in place to ensure their survival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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