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Map of Coventry by John Speed, published around 1610, showing the city walls. A sumptuous banquet was prepared in honour of King James I's visit to the city in 1617, but relations between the monarchy and Coventry deteriorated later when protests were made against his son's request for a considerable contribution of "ship-money" in 1635.
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In 1662, after the restoration of the monarchy, in revenge for the support Coventry gave to the Parliamentarians during the Civil War, the city walls were demolished on the orders of King Charles II. In the 21st century only two of the medieval gates survive - Swanswell Gate [10] and Cook Street Gate [11] - and some small sections of walling. [12]
The Mediaeval Stone Building is an unidentified mediaeval ruin on Much Park Street, Coventry, in the West Midlands of England. The ruin is a Grade II* listed building; it is believed to have been built in the late 13th or early 14th century and was uncovered by a German bomb during the Coventry Blitz. The building, built from red sandstone, was ...
The Cathedral Church of St Michael was almost completely destroyed in the Coventry Blitz of 1940; its ruins are now a Grade I listed building. There are 19 Grade I listed buildings in the City of Coventry. In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance. These buildings are legally protected from demolition, as well as from ...
38–39 Bayley Lane is a former building, whose present-day site is accessible from the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, England. [1] All that remains is the medieval undercroft, a fourteenth-century cellar that initially belonged to a wealthy merchant, who was a clothier. [2]
Map of Coventry by John Speed, published around 1610, showing the street layout and the city walls. Coventry's importance during the Middle Ages was such, that on a two occasions a national Parliament was held there, as well as a number of Great Councils. [35]
Gosford St. Coventry (near Cox Street) painted by Sydney John Bunney on 18 May 1916. The weaving industries declined after 1860, giving rise to cycle manufacture, and to the car industry. [4] One of the notable relics of this is the Humber Motor Building at the junction of Sky Blue Way, which exists at present as Lloyd TSB Bank. [5]