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Coventry is a cathedral city in the West Midlands of England, on the River Sherbourne, 31 km east-south-east of Birmingham. It is best known for Coventry Cathedral, where the bombed ruins of St Michael's stand beside Basil Spence's 1962 cathedral, for the legend of Lady Godiva and for the Coventry Transport Museum.
Founded in the early Middle Ages, Coventry became a wealthy city of national importance and received a city charter in 1345. It grew into a centre of bicycle making in the 19th century and of the British motor industry in the 20th, which made it a target in the Second World War, and in November 1940 much of the historic centre was destroyed in an air raid.
The city had a population of 345,324 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England. Rebuilt after the war, it keeps medieval survivors such as Holy Trinity Church, St Mary's Guildhall and Ford's Hospital among its modern streets.
Coventry Cathedral in Coventry pairs the ruins of the 14th-century St Michael's, bombed on 14 November 1940, with the new cathedral by Basil Spence, consecrated on 25 May 1962. The old spire rises 87 m, and inside the new church hangs Graham Sutherland's 23 m Christ in Glory tapestry.
Holy Trinity Church in Coventry dates from the 12th century and is the only medieval church in the city that is still complete. It is 59 m long, its 72 m spire is one of the tallest non-cathedral spires in the UK, and its Doom wall painting of the 1430s was revealed again in 2004.
St Mary's Guildhall on Bayley Lane in Coventry is a Grade I listed medieval hall built in 1340 to 1342 for the merchant guild of St Mary and extended in 1460. It later served as the city's armoury, treasury and council headquarters, and Mary, Queen of Scots was held here in 1569.
Ford's Hospital in Coventry is a Grade I listed half-timbered almshouse founded by the merchant William Ford in 1509, with a narrow courtyard seen as a fine example of English domestic architecture. Bombed in October 1940, it was restored with its original timbers in 1951 to 1953.
Coventry Transport Museum in central Coventry holds the largest public collection of British-made road transport, with more than 240 cars and commercial vehicles, 100 motorcycles and 200 bicycles. Its stars are Thrust2 and ThrustSSC, jet cars that set land speed records in 1983 and 1997.
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum on Jordan Well in Coventry is named after the industrialist Sir Alfred Herbert, whose gifts paid for the building. Begun in 1939 and delayed by the war, it opened in 1960 and reopened after a £14 million refit in 2008, with art, history and archives.
The Charterhouse in Coventry is a Grade I listed building that keeps remains of a Carthusian priory whose foundation stone was laid by Richard II in 1385. It holds a wall painting of the Crucifixion from about 1417, the only medieval wall painting surviving in an English Carthusian house.
Spon Street is a historic street in central Coventry, once part of the old route from Gosford to Birmingham, where dyers and tanners gathered by the River Sherbourne from the 12th and 13th centuries. Today the stretch from St John the Baptist Church to the ring road keeps the name.
War Memorial Park is a park of 48.5 hectares in southern Coventry, opened in July 1921 in memory of the 2,587 Coventrians killed in the First World War. Its 27 m Portland stone war memorial by T. F. Tickner was dedicated by Douglas Haig on 8 October 1927 and is Grade II* listed.
Coventry Canal Basin, just north of central Coventry, is the start of the Coventry Canal, which runs 38 miles north to Fradley Junction near Lichfield. The basin opened in 1769 and was expanded in 1788, and its canal bridge, Canal House and warehouses are Grade II listed.
Coombe Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey east of Coventry, in the Warwickshire countryside. Opened in 1150 and once the largest monastery in Warwickshire, it became a country house after its suppression in 1539, is now a Grade I listed hotel, and its grounds form Coombe Country Park.
The Lunt Roman Fort in Baginton, on the south-eastern outskirts of Coventry, is a Roman fort built around AD 60 during the final campaign against Boudica. Fully excavated and partly reconstructed, it has a rebuilt wooden gateway made with Roman military engineers' tools and techniques.
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