TAILIEUCHUNG - Bell's Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry

The opening words of Sir William Dugdale's account of Coventry assert that it is a city "remarkable for antiquity, charters, rights and privileges, and favours shown by monarchs." Though this handbook is primarily concerned with a feature of the city he does not here mention--its magnificent buildings--the history of these is bound up with that of the city. The connection of its great parish churches with the everyday life of the people, though commonly on a narrower stage, is more intimate than is that of a cathedral or an abbey church, but it is to be remembered that without its Monastery Coventry might never. | Bell s Cathedrals The Churches of Coventry by 1 CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III Bell s Cathedrals The Churches of Coventry by Frederic W. Woodhouse This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Bell s Cathedrals The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City and Its Medieval Remains Author Frederic W. Woodhouse Release Date February 11 2007 EBook 11403 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BELL S CATHEDRALS Produced by Jonathan Ingram Keith M. Eckrich Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Bell s Cathedrals The Churches of Coventry by 2 ------------------------------------------------------- Transcriber s Note 1111 Inconsistent hyphenation and archaic spelling in the original document has been preserved. ------------------------------------------------------- Illustration COVENTRY THE THREE SPIRES. THE CHURCHES OF COVENTRY A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CITY ITS MEDIEVAL REMAINS BY FREDERIC W. WOODHOUSE WITH XL ILLUSTRATIONS Illustration ARMS OF COVENTRY LONDON GEORGE BELL SONS 1909 CHISWICK PRESS CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOK COURT CHANCERY LANE LONDON. PREFACE The principal authorities for the history of Coventry and its churches have been Dugdale s Antiquities of Warwickshire and the Illustrated Papers and the History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry by Thomas Sharp edited by . Fretton 1871 . Besides these the many papers by Mr. Fretton in the Transactions of the Birmingham and Midland Institute and other Societies and the History and Antiquities of Coventry by Benjamin Poole 1870 have been the main sources of historical information. The Author is however responsible for the architectural opinions and .

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