Coventry Cathedral

...boys added a m�lange of scampering feet and laughter to John's sprawling outhouses (soon piled high with maquettes for the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral) and Myfanwy's ramshackle kitchen, where seasoned aromas wafted, apt red wines lurked and...

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...and during the 1960s played an important part in the development of the vibrant church life that sprang from the consecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. Published: 5:17PM GMT 12 Nov 2009 A deeply spiritual man and a courageous...

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Hundreds of mourners, including Japanese Ambassador Yoshiji Nogami, gather to pay their last respects at a funeral service for Miss Hawker at Coventry Cathedral. 23 May 2007 Margaret Beckett, then Foreign Secretary, travels to Japan and...

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...ordeal which included 11 hospital operations. Fusilier Thomas James watches the coffin of his comrade Fusilier Shaun Bush leave Coventry Cathedral after his funeral service Photo: GETTY Plastered with bandages, a patch over his eye and...

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The cathedral was rebuilt following the city's bombing in 1940 Coventry Cathedral visitors are to be charged GBP5 from January next year. A spokesman said the cathedral's governing body was finding it increasingly difficult to pay the...

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...room of a London row house. It was entirely featureless, but hidden speakers cast infrasound waves like those measured in supposedly-haunted Coventry Cathedral. Other speakers projected sound waves that produced an electromagnetic frequency...

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...which has played host to Sean Connery and Richard Gere in Arthurian epic First Knight, was created by the architect behind the controversial Coventry Cathedral. Debate was sparked on website WalesHome when blogger Clayton Hirst wrote:...

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...said that the power station deserves a fresh look as it was designed by modernist architect Basil Spence. He also designed the post-war Coventry Cathedral "There are obviously very impassioned arguments on both sides made all the more...

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...seen by him. " John Piper's (1903-1992) great contribution to 20th-century British art, whether he was painting the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral or rugged Welsh hills, was his ability to evoke a sense of place. This meant not just...

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...the funeral of his fallen comrade Fusilier Shaun Bush. Fusilier Thomas James watches the coffin of his comrade Fusilier Shaun Bush leave Coventry Cathedral. Photo: Getty Images Fusilier James, who lost his right arm in the same Taliban...

In this article: Bishop of Coventry, Christopher Cocksworth, and Taliban