Historic Coventry Cultural Tour

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Explore some of the historic buildings of Coventry and discover the stories behind them.

If you know where you’re going then feel free to go off and explore, but if you’re not sure where to go, then you can follow the directions of this mini-tour via Google Maps – starting from Swanswell Gate and finish at the London Road Cemetery. If you’re streaming the Echos app in the background, you’ll hear the information as you get close to each landmark. https://goo.gl/maps/728LiYSh25Dfejr98


Coventry University - Lanchester Archive
Coventry University - Lanchester Archive

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City Gates - Swanswell Gate

Swanswell Gate and Cook Street Gate are the only two surviving gatehouses that once punctuated Coven…

Priory Row

3-5 Priory Row, previously known as the Lychgate Cottages are Grade II* listed, timber framed 3 stor…

London Road Cemetery

London Road Cemetery encompasses 17 hectares of land, including a vast collection of notable trees s…

Charterhouse

Charterhouse is a Grade I listed 14th century Carthusian priory and refectory, which was founded in …

Whitefriars Monastery

Whitefriars monastery was founded in 1342 by Sir John Poulteney, a pre-eminent merchant Draper and L…

Whitefriars Gatehouse

Whitefriars Gatehouse is a Grade II listed building, situated at the bottom of Much Park Street, jus…

Drapers' Hall

Drapers’ Hall was built in 1832, designed by renowned architects Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson…

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