St. John the Divine and Coventry’s Post War Suburbs
coventrysociety With the CovSoc visit to St. John the Divine Church coming up this week, our Vice Chair, Tim Brown, tells us some of the context of the construction of the…
Architecture
The Network Rail Building
The Coventry Society supports the campaign by the Westwood Heath History Group to save the Network Rail Building, formerly the Cable & Wireless College, in Westwood Heath Road. The building…
Delia Shortlisted
Coventry University’s Delia Derbyshire Building has been shortlisted as a potential RIBA prize winner. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) unveiled nine projects that have been nominated across the…
Coventry’s Victorian Heritage
Tim Bridges: The Victorian and Edwardian Buildings of Coventry Since 2006 Tim Bridges has worked as a part-time Conservation Adviser to the Victorian Society covering casework on Victorian and Edwardian…
The Shrink to Fit Tower
CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks, found this interesting feature about the use of traditional materials in non-traditional ways. Paul said “I like finding out about new interesting students projects, especially…
The Future of the Cable and Wireless Building?
The former Cable and Wireless College at 320 Westwood Heath Road is perhaps one of the most attractive buildings in Coventry. It won awards when it was first opened, but…
The William Morris Building
Malvern Carvell published this interesting story about the William Morris Building on the Visit Historic Coventry Facebook page in April 2023. The building, in Gosford Street, is now occupied by…
Work to Start on the Ikea Building
The Coventry Telegraph has reported that a start date has been revealed for the transformation of Coventry’s former IKEA store. The plan is to turn the building into a ‘cultural…
Stoneleigh House, Earlsdon Street
The Earlsdon Echo has recently featured this boring, but interesting building at 70 Earlsdon Street. ‘Stoneleigh House’ was originally called ‘Earlsdon House’ and was the first building erected on the…
Sent to Coventry – in lino
Coventry’s “At-Risk” modernist architecture is celebrated in an exhibition at Coventry Cathedral, sponsored by the Friends of the Cathedral. The exhibition is by Coventry born artist, Paul Catherall. It features…