Following on from the success of the Tin Angel in medieval Spon Street, Taylor John’s House is a café-bar with a strong live music pedigree. The new venue at Coventry Canal Basin is set in two 19th century vaults that were once used for coal storage.
Car parking is available off St Nicholas Street or on Leicester Row.
Priory Place is the perfect outdoor area to eat, drink and relax whilst listening to fantastic live jazz. This lively eating and drinking space has fantastic views over Holy Trinity Church, the old Blue Coats School and Priory Gardens. In the foreground the stunning water-feature designed by Susanna Heron adds to the relaxing continental atmosphere.
Coventry Cathedral was designed by Sir Basil Spence and the foundation stone was laid by HM The Queen on 23 March 1956. In keeping with tradition, the cathedral was to be filled with art from the leading artists of the time. Graham Sutherland's tapestry of Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph dominates the East End of the cathedral, whilst John Hutton's screen of Saints and Angels allows the spirit of the Ruins to pervade the new cathedral. Coloured light streams through John Piper's Baptistry window and Epstein's St Michael and the Devil guards the cathedral steps. Other contributors include Elizabeth Frink and Ralph Beyer. The New Cathedral was consecrated on 25 May 1962, in the presence of HM The Queen.
Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre was the first theatre to be built in Britain after the Second World War. Opened in 1958, the theatre takes its name from the capital of the then Yugoslavia, whose government made a special gift of timber to be used in the auditorium.
Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, dance, comedy, literature, films and visual art.
Warwick Arts Centre is situated at the heart of The University of Warwick in Coventry and is much more than a single venue. With six outstanding spaces on the same site, it is quite unique – with a concert hall, two theatres, a cinema, gallery, conference room as well as hospitality suites, restaurant, bookshop, gift shop and two bars.
