Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, West Midlands

View of a worker digging the choir practice room and robing room foundations of Coventry Cathedral. It shows the pile cap trench intersected by two stone coffins, part of the old graveyard. 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

cathedral religion people men construction coffin laing