RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, ST MICHAEL'S AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076651
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, ST MICHAEL'S AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076651
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, ST MICHAEL'S AVENUE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, ST MICHAEL'S AVENUE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP3356478993

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RUINED CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

05-FEB-55

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Among the largest medieval parish churches in England. Made a collegiate church in 1908, cathedral in 1918. Much damaged by an air raid, November 1940, leaving body of church unroofed and without arcades.

Nave and chancel with aisles, two pairs of chapels north and south of nave aisles, one on south still roofed. South porch. Apsidal sanctuary with crypt. Magnificent west steeple dominating centre of city.

Crypt and south porch circa 1300. West steeple 1373-94 with spire begun 1432. Church walls rebuilt 1373 - circa 1450. Stonework restored 1883-90 by J Oldrid Scott.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 October 2019.

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Legacy System number:: 218400
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.