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www.coventry.gov.uk /directory _record /66 /the _council _house The Council House, Coventry in Coventry , England, is a Tudor Revival style city hall building which is the home of Coventry City Council and the seat of local government .
Coventry (/ ˈ k ɒ v ən t r i / ⓘ KOV-ən-tree [6] or rarely / ˈ k ʌ v-/ KUV-) [7] is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345 ...
Coventry was an ancient borough. The earliest known charter, concerning the establishment of St Mary's Priory and its relationship with the town, dates from 1043. [3] Coventry gained city status in 1102 when papal authorisation was given for the Bishop of Lichfield moving the seat of the diocese to the priory at Coventry. [4]
The building was built in the medieval style between 1340 and 1342 and much altered and extended in 1460. [1]The guildhall originally served as the headquarters of the merchant guild of St Mary, [2] and subsequently of the united guilds of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St John the Baptist and St Katherine, [3] which merged in 1392.
Friargate is a business district in Coventry. Covering 37 acres (15 ha) surrounding Coventry railway station. It is made up of 25 new buildings, including 14 Grade A office buildings, two hotels and new homes. [1] The project was scheduled to take 15 years to complete and is thought to be providing 15,000 new jobs at a cost of £100 million. [2]
The Walsgrave, and Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals were replaced by a new 'super hospital' at the Walsgrave site which was procured under a private finance initiative (PFI) contract in 2002. The new hospital was designed by Nightingale Associates [ 5 ] and built by Skanska at a cost of £440 million. [ 6 ]
He used a network of associates in England to operate a string of sham modelling agencies and photography studios in cities including London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Coventry and Nottingham.
Walsgrave on Sowe neighbours the Potters Green, Clifford Park, Woodway Park, Wyken, Henley Green and Mount Pleasant areas of Coventry, and is in the Henley ward of the city, [1] although Walsgrave-on-Sowe was formerly in the Wyken Ward prior to ward changes made in 2003 by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE).