Coventry No. 3 / Coventru / Coventrv
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view of church interior
Scene Description: the empty shell of the old cathedral after the 1940 bombing
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Rob Orland's Historic Coventry [www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cathedrals/ruins-now.php] [accessed 27 February 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: pre-1940
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Image Source: photograph in Rob Orland's Historic Coventry [www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cathedrals/pre1940cathedral.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: a recent view of the old cathedral ruins
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historic Coventry, 2015
Image Source: photograph in Rob Orland's Historic Coventry [www.historiccoventry.co.uk/cathedrals/ruins-now.php] [accessed 27 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09363COV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church of St. Michael [aka The Old Cathedral] [formerly St. Michael's in the Bailey] [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Bayley Lane, Coventry CV1 1LN, West Midlands, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 24 7622 5616
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 15 km N of Warwick, 30 km ESE of Birmingham, 40 SW of Leicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoneleigh -- formerly in Warwickshire
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Date: 1394
Century and Period: 14th century (late), Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church Notes: originally a Norman church ca. 1138 known as St. Michael's in the Bailey; re-built 14th and 15thC; in ruins after the WWII bombings of 1940
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Coventry [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3379/coventry/] [accessed 26 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Dugdale (1730), in the entry for “Coventre” (Coventry) writes of John Crosse, 1394: “This Man build the font in St. Michael’s, and he and John Only, and Rob. Shipley, and others, did erect St. Mary-hall”; and later in the same source: "1662. This year the font was set up again in St. Michael’s". Described in Woodhouse (1909) as a font given to this church by John Cross, then Mayor, in 1394, but, adds the source, a font that was "condemned and removed by the Puritans as superstitious" [cf. Index entry for Coventry No. 2 for a font of the 13th century in this church -- two other fonts in this church, a large 18th-century font later removed to the Lady Chapel and the new one that replaced it are not listed in this Index on account of their late dates]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.407755, -1.507474
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 27.92″ N, 1° 30′ 26.9″ W
UTM: 30U 601526 5807439
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Dugdale, William, The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects and portraictures, London: printed for John Osborn and Thomas Longman, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row: and are sold also by Robert Gosling, at the Crown and Mitre in Fleet-Street; and William Ratten, Bookseller in Coventry, 1730
Woodhouse, Frederic W., The Churches of Coventry: a Short History of the City and its Medieval Remains, Coventry: [s.n.], 1909