Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, West Midlands

View taken from a roof of a nearby building showing the crowd at the foundation stone laying ceremony for Coventry Cathedral on 23rd March 1956. The old cathedral was bombed during an air raid on 14 November 1940. After the architect Sir Basil Spence won a competition to design a new cathedral work began on it in 1955. The photograph comes from the John Laing Company Archive.

Location

West Midlands Coventry

Period

1950s (1950 - 1959)

Tags

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