#coventry cathedral

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

J.G. Davies - The Secular Use of Church Buildings - The Seabury Pr - 1968 (jacket photo: The B. and W. Menstrels rehearsing in Coventry Cath., 1967; 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', tapestry by Graham Sutherland)

[theblindsnapper69]

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[kentengland]

Coventry Cathedral Tower Climb

[macrowitchphotography]

The cathedral in coventry is absolutely stunning, the walls all looks like this, stained glass tiles... 😍 🌈

[passionatepictures-2021]

Coventry cathedral England

[scavengedluxury]

Coventry Cathedral, 1967. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[home-phoenix]

Coventry cathedral. Old.

[squareallworthy]

London was last bombed the shit out of in 1941, just 82 years ago, and the UK had an active, violent, bomb-throwing secessionist movement as recently as 1998. There is still today a peaceful secessionist movement that has a non-negligible chance of separating Scotland from the rest. So no, the UK is not especially politically stable nor a particularly safe place to store your old rocks for thousands of years to come.

“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

[124daisies]

Baptistry Window, Coventry Cathedral

[julianworker]

Welcome to Coventry Cathedral

Brilliant from Coventry Cathedral

Superb message – I hope you can read this!

[dinoholland]

Coventry artist Martin Green

[pinkflyingtiger]

two monuments in the city, one for the old and one for the new

[english-history-trip]

While the London hospital fell into disuse by the 18th century, and the York hospital was a casualty of Henry VIII's Reformation, two hospitals in Coventry, founded in 1506 and 1509, still stand.

They were founded by private businessmen, Thomas Bond and William Ford, respectively, also through endowments in their wills; however, based on the dates of their founding, they may well have also received funds from the late king. Even if the timing is pure coincidence, they can serve as examples of how Henry's hospitals may have looked in their time.

Both still serve their original purpose: municipal charity housing for the poor.

Bond's Hospital (1506):

Ford's Hospital (1509):

“In his will, Henry VII endowed a ‘commune Hospitallis’ where needy poor people could stay, recover, be fed & clothed: the Hospital of The Savoy at Charing Cross.”

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[x][x] “And for as much as we inwardly consideir, that the vii workes of Charite and Mercy, bee most profitable, due and necessarie, for the salvacion of mans soule […], we therefor of our great pitie and compassion, desiring inwardly the remedy of the premisses, have begoune to erecte, buylde and establishe, a commune Hospital in our place called the Savoie besid Charingcrosse.“

The Will of King Henry VII, 1509

(via harritudur)

“And in likewise, if it be not doon by our silf, we wol that our said executours make two semblable commune hospitallis, aswel in fourme and faction, as yerely value in landis, nomber of preistes, ministres, servauntes, beddes for pouer folkes, and statutes and ordenaunces: the oon of theim to be made in some convenient place in the suburbes of our citie of Yorke, and the other in the suburbes of our city of Coventre, either of theim as nigh to the same cities as conveniently may be doon.”  

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coventry cathedral

[ginandoldlace]

In 1940, the city of Coventry faced the horrors of the single most concentrated air raid attack in Britain.

The raid lasted for over 11 hours, destroying over 43,000 homes and the great medieval cathedral of St Michaels, the ruins of which now stand for international peace and reconciliation.

At the time, Coventry was a major centre for production towards the war effort and the enemy wanted to stop the city from helping the troops on the front lines. The huge Daimler works building was one of the biggest war production factories at the time. Once bombed, the structure turned into a raging inferno as the around 150 high explosive bombs and 3,000 incendiaries fuelled the fire.

The official death toll for the evening was 554 but the real figure is suspected to be much higher as many people were never accounted for.

We will remember them