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	St. Michael's, The Old Coventry Cathedral.
		This ancient part of the cathedral can be located in Bayley Lane opposite the entrance to St. Mary's Guildhall.
		However, with the revision of the diocese in 1918, after Coventry had gone nearly 400 years with no cathedral since the demolition of St.
		Mary's after the Dissolution, the church of St. Michael was finally given cathedral status.
	www.historiccoventry.co.uk /cathedrals/oldcathedral.php (286 words)

	Cathedral - LoveToKnow 1911
		The cathedral church of St John Lateran, the cathedral church of the pope as bishop of Rome and patriarch of the West, alone in western Europe possesses potentially a patriarchal character.
		According to Chrodegang's rule the cathedral clergy were to live under a common roof, occupy a common dormitory and submit to the authority of a special officer.
		The cathedral church of Galloway, at Whithorn, of English foundation, was a church of Praemonstratensians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cathedral (3875 words)

	Coventry Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael's Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry, in Coventry, West Midlands, England.
		A cross made of nails from the old cathedral was donated to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, which was destroyed by Allied bomb attacks and is also kept as a ruin alongside a newer building.
		The foundation stone of the new cathedral was laid by the Queen on March 23, 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coventry_Cathedral (796 words)

	Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The old church was built between 1891 and 1895 according to plans by Franz Schwechten.
		It was consecrated on May 25, 1962, the same day as the new Coventry Cathedral, which like the Gedächtniskirche, was built alongside the ruins of the old building, which were kept as reminders of the horrors of war.
		Besides the Coventry cross, it houses an iconic cross of the Russian Orthodox Church and a graphic known as the Stalingrad Madonna by Lieutenant Kurt Reuber, created in December 1942 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), as symbols of reconciliation between the three countries that were once at war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church (291 words)

	Wikinfo \| Coventry
		Coventry is the tenth largest city in England with a population of 300,848 (2001 census), 806,733 people live in the wider Coventry and Warwickshire area.
		Coventry's most famous resident was Lady Godiva, who according to legend, rode through the city naked on horseback, in protest at high taxes being waged on the cityfolk by her husband Leofric.
		Coventry became one of the largest and most prosperous cities in Medieval England, and for many years was one of the few cities in England to have a protective wall.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Coventry (1626 words)

	Coventry Medieval Mystery Plays
		Coventry was something of an exception in that its shorter cycle ten pageants in all could be staged in one day.
		It was presented by the Belgrade Theatre in association with Coventry Cathedral and received generous sponsorship from a number of firms in the city.
		That the Coventry play had only three performances need not be incompatible with this : different guilds may have performed at different stations, or may have identified their stations by different names, and, like everything else, arrangements probably changed down the years.
	homepage.eircom.net /~maloh/jillteck/mystery/what-cov2.htm (1821 words)

	Coventry Cathedral Ruins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Coventry Cathedral is unique among cathedrals in that it no longer stands; the building burned to the ground on the night of November 14, 1940 as a result of a devastating Luftwaffe bombing raid.
		The original Cathedral fell into decay after its monastic community was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, and by 1918, when the new Diocese of Coventry was created, nothing remained of the old Cathedral.
		The title of Coventry Cathedral then fell to the old church of St Michael; it was this building that was destroyed in the second world war.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /~dredmond/cathedrals/coventry (219 words)

	Peace in Grace
		The ferocious battle of Israelites and Philistines, in the David and Goliath panel of the Ghiberti Doors of Paradise, is sharply contrasted with the adjacent panel depicting the peaceful meeting of King Solomon with the Queen of Sheba.
		The cathedral's Churchill plaque, commemorating the centennial of the birth of Britain's great wartime prime minister, is made of stone from old Coventry Cathedral, firebombed by the Nazis.
		The cathedral's Peace window is crowded with doves holding leafy olive branches, presided over by an allegorical crowned and enthroned figure of Peace, encircled by six doves and holding an olive branch.
	www.gracecathedral.org /enrichment/crypt/cry_20030129b.shtml (294 words)

	Coventry History
		Coventry has an important historical place in the region, and there are some attractive historical buildings that can still be found in the City.
		This plan shows the 4 churches: the outlines of the Cathedral of St Mary and its Priory (in blue), together with the existing Holy Trinity Church, and the New and Old Cathedrals of St Michael.
		Coventry's guild hall was built between 1340 and 1460, and is among the finest examples of a medieval guild hall in the country.
	home.freeuk.net /webbuk2/coventry.htm (3117 words)

	Coventry Cathedral news - Coventry Cathedral Most Popular Building - 18 November 1999
		Coventry Cathedral has won the hearts on the British public according to a poll conducted by English Heritage and Channel 4 television.
		Canon Vivienne Faull, the Cathedral’s vice-provost, is delighted with the news and believes it is a boost to the whole of the city.
		Over the last few years the Cathedral has proved to be one of the biggest draws for people to visit the city, and Faull says that is continually growing.
	www.cwn.org.uk /religion/coventry-cathedral/1999/11/991118-popular.htm (361 words)

	Britten’s War Requiem
		Coventry was also the first British city to lose its cathedral as a result of aerial bombing raids.
		I saw the old cathedral as standing clearly for the Sacrifice, one side of the Christian faith, and I knew my task was to design a new one which would stand for the Triumph of the Resurrection… In these few moments the idea of the design was planted.
		The juxtaposition between old and new is a theme that unites the Coventry Cathedral and the text and music of the War Requiem.
	www.minnesotaorchestra.org /boxoffice/2005bwr.cfm (743 words)

	Christ Church Cathedral - Guided Tour
		Christ Church Cathedral, as is usual with Gothic churches, is built in the form of a cross, with the altar at the East end.
		In December 1856, when the old Cathedral burned down, a soldier of the nearby garrison jumped onto the altar and cut the painting from is frame with his sword.
		Its architectural sister church is the Cathedral in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
	www.montreal.anglican.org /cathedral/english/tour.html (1102 words)

	Coventry Cathedral Servers
		The destruction of city and Cathedral struck a chord, particularly when the Provost of the time prayed for forgiveness, and from his quotation of the words of Christ on the Cross, "Father Forgive" the Community of the Cross of Nails was born.
		The work of reconciliation reached a poignant moment when Coventry Cathedral was invited to act as a host for the massive Cross and Orb that had been designed and constructed in Britain for the restored Cathedral in Dresden, Coventry's twin city that had also suffered devastation in the Second World War.
		Coventry was divided in two, and the neighbouring Church of the Holy Trinity was the Prior's Church and served his half of the City.
	freespace.virgin.net /paul.warren3/history.htm (1659 words)

	BJ: Cathedral No. 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Looking up at the south end of the cathedral (the elaborate clear glass window that had once occupied it entirely now lay in a white pile of a million shattered pieces) he could see the dark shell of the old cathedral, the current cathedral's predecessor.
		At the top on her left was the dark stone of a medieval cathedral, and on the right a far more modern, barn-like building, showing yellow stone beneath the burn marks and just about intact.
		She walked up the steps to it and came to a stone set into the wall at waist height, which according to the inscription was the foundation stone of Coventry cathedral laid by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
	www.sff.net /people/ben-jeapes/coventry.htm (3113 words)

	Coventry Cathedral's Message of Forgiveness
		One of the buildings destroyed was this cathedral, which traced its roots to the 12th century.
		Coventry's message is a timely one for me, preoccupied with forgiveness as I have never been before.
		The bishop of Coventry had urged Basil Spence "to design an altar and build a church around it." But the unremarkable altar, built of fl marble and dwarfed by the Graham Sutherland tapestry, seems to me the least imposing part of the new cathedral.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=501 (3534 words)

	Coventry
		Charles I attempted to enter Coventry with an army but he was refused entry and Coventry remained in parliaments hands for the whole of the war.
		Almost the whole of the old girls' department was completely destroyed and much damage was done to the remainder.
		The old school building was patched up for many years but was eventually demolished as the school was redeveloped.
	www.ourwardfamily.com /coventry.htm (1214 words)

	Witzel's Seminar - Coventry Cathedral
		On the night of November 14 1940, the City of Coventry was devestated by heavy German bombing.
		Her Majesty The Queen Mother came to Coventry early in 1941, with her husband King George VI, to view the devastation wrought on the City and to inspire the morale of the citizens.
		The new Cathedral was consecrated in 1962, in the presence of HM The Queen.
	www.witzels.info /coventry.html (172 words)

	Acanthus Clews Architects
		The Cathedral was recently voted ‘Building of the 20th Century,’; but its religious significance dates back to the 11th Century.
		Michael is responsible for both the New Cathedral and the Ruins of the bombed Old Cathedral.
		Since his appointment, a Quinquennial Report has been completed on both the New and Old Cathedral, as a result of which stonework consolidation of the ruins, supported by an English Heritage grant, is in hand.
	www.acanthusclews.co.uk /coventrycathedra.html (147 words)

	Our setting - Coventry University
		Coventry University is a forward-looking, modern University with a proud tradition as a provider of high quality education and a focus for multidisciplinary research.
		In the Cathedral Quarter, modern architecture and ancient ruins of the two Cathedrals dominate cobbled streets of buzzing bars and restaurants.
		In the modern City-centre, history is still evident in the old city walls, the timber-framed buildings and the reconstructed medieval Spon Street.
	www.coventry.ac.uk /coventry/city.htm (183 words)

	screenonline: Coventry Cathedral (1958)
		A documentary about the reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral through the eyes of architect Basil Spence, who explains his concept of blending ancient and modern by comparing his sketches and models with various existing cathedrals in England and Italy.
		The film traces the development of the plan of the new cathedral, started in March 1956 to replace the mediaeval building destroyed in an air raid on 14 November 1940.
		The development of the plan for the new building is traced out showing the various influences that have affected the design, particularly the desire to incorporate the ruins of the old cathedral with the new.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/441952 (278 words)

	Coventry University and UWM Center for By-Products Utilization
		Coventry was the original centre of the British car industry and is still the home of Jaguar cars.
		It was scarred by, but survived, the Blitz of Coventry during the Second World War and it continues to this day to welcome visitors from all over the world.
		In the center of Coventry there is a wide range of hotels and a range of budget options.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/CBU/coventry.html (1140 words)

	Quaker Tour of England - Coventry Cathedral - QuakerInfo.com
		The Cathedral stonemason, Jock Forbes, noticed that two charred medieval roof timbers had fallen in the shape of a cross.
		The Cathedral provost, Dick Howard, had a vision which led to the cathedral's Ministry of Peace and Reconciliation, which works to strengthen friendship and increase understanding among nations.
		The glorious new Cathedral was consecrated on 25 May 1962, next to the ruined one.
	www.quakerinfo.com /coventry.shtml (525 words)

	Coventry Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Coventry is a thousand year old city where over that time has had three Cathedrals and the ruins of the first two are still visible today.
		Other ruins include some timber, which was found in the shape of a cross and has served as a crucifix ever since, along with three of the nails, which had fallen from the roof and were arranged in the form of a cross.
		The views, both inside and outside of the Cathedral symbolising reconciliation and peace, is an essential part of Spence’s design, which is recognised all over the world.
	www.newman.ac.uk /Students_Websites/~a.m.boylan/covcath.htm (265 words)

	Godiva Festival, Coventry UK
		A video of the death-defying millennium tightrope walk between Coventry’s old cathedral and Holy Trinity church is to go on sale at the Godiva Festival.
		Coventry’s rich motor heritage will proudly drive through the streets of the city as part of the Godiva Festival on Friday.
		Instead of a dome, Coventry is having a series of tents to mark the millennium — but they will still bring more visitors than the London attraction.
	www.cwn.org.uk /events/godiva-festival (256 words)

	The War Requiem
		The War Requiem was written for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral (the old cathedral is pictured at left), and was first performed there 30 May 1962.
		Coventry Cathedral had been destroyed during the Battle of Britain in World War II.
		Britten was commissioned to write a piece for the ceremony marking the completion of a new cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, built along side the the ruins of the original millenium-old structure.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britwar.html (705 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Home Front volunteers honoured
		Coventry's old cathedral was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs
		The memorial, a plaque, is set in the floor of Coventry's old St Michael's Cathedral, which was reduced to a burned-out shell by Nazi bombs.
		The event, held at the new Coventry Cathedral, is also attended by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, and other leading politicians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/665102.stm (305 words)

	coventry cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The old Coventry cathedral of St Michael's was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940.
		The building behind is the new Coventry Cathedral built to replace it.
		The land along the northern edge of Holy Trinity church and up to the new Cathedral contains the buried remains of St Mary's which was demolished by Henry the Eighth.
	www.webbaviation.co.uk /coventry/5560.htm (302 words)

	body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The idea for a tapestry to be the dominant visual feature of the cathedral came to the cathedral's architect Basil Spence in response to the colourful interiors of European churches, where the aesthetic and spiritual effects result from a combination of stained glass windows and mosaics.
		As realised in Coventry, the impact of the tapestry is due to the unification of the notion of a colourful altar, illuminated through coloured glass, with Spence's main structural concept.
		To the Old Testament visionaries this humanised part of the tetramorph was actually only a quarter of a complex winged cherubim, which had the combined attributes of ox, lion and eagle, and moved on wheels.
	members.aol.com /corixus/body.htm (17354 words)

	Christ Church Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 2002, the Cathedral Chapter voted to make a no-interest loan of $300,000 from the Cathedral's endowment funds to enable Center City Churches to purchase Peter's Retreat near Hartford Hospital, a shared residence and support program for adults living with AIDS.
		It springs directly from the united efforts of the community of Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, England, since the loss of the old Cathedral under attack from the air in 1940, throughout the period of destruction and the incitement to bitterness which followed World War II.
		The Cathedral EPF gathers to discuss issues of peace and invite participation in prayer vigils.
	www.cccathedral.org /parishlife_cw.htm (1110 words)

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