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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Coventry Cathedral | | | |  Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Giles Gilbert Scott - Professional recognitionThe early 1930s were a time when Scott's reputation was the highest and he was chosen as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1933, its centenary year. In his inaugural address he criticised both the diehard traditionalist and the diehard modernist, calling for a 'middle line' in which architects accepted new methods of construction while seeking to always place the human element in architecture.
Scott's search for the 'middle line' caused him difficulties when he was appointed as architect for the new Coventry C ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Giles Gilbert Scott - Signature buildings The London Power Company had commissioned a new electricity generating station at Battersea and in 1930 commissioned Scott as a consultant to make the inevitably massive architecture more appealing. Scott chose external bricks and put some detailing on the sheer walls, then remodelled the four corner chimneys so that they resembled classical columns. Battersea Power Station, completed in 1933 but disused since 1982, remains ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Giles Gilbert Scott - Late work After the immediate rush for building work caused by war damage had died down, Scott put a new roof on the Guildhall in the City of London and designed modernistic brick offices for the Corporation just to the north. Despite having opposed placing heavily industrial buildings in the centre of cities, he accepted a commission to build Bankside power station on the bank of the River Thames in Southwark, where he built on what he had learnt at Battersea and gathered all the flues into a single tower. This building was converte ...
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| | | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Famous people Coventry's most famous resident was Lady Godiva, who according to legend, rode through the city naked on horseback (actually, she likely rode the horse bareback, not barenaked), in protest at high taxes being waged on the cityfolk by her husband Leofric. According to the legend, the residents of the city were asked to look away as she rode, but one man didn't and was allegedly struck blind, he became known as Peeping Tom thus originating the term. Th ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Economy Coventry has long been a centre of motor and cycle manufacturing, dating back from 1896, the car and cycle industry has been a strong centre point for this town. Starting out with some less familiar names such as Coventry Motette, Great Horseless Carriage Co, Swift and more familiar names like Humber, Riley and Daimler and the Triumph motorcycle having its origins in 1902 in a Coventry factory. Although the motor industry has declined, the Jaguar company has its headquarters and a factory in the city, and a large Peugeot car factory is located in Ryton just outside the city. The famous London black cab taxis ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Sport Sporting teams include Coventry City (Football), Coventry Rugby Club (Rugby Union), Coventry Blaze (Ice Hockey), Coventry Bears (Rugby League), Coventry Godiva Harriers (Athletics), Coventry Bees (Speedway) and Coventry Crusaders (Basketball)
In football, Coventry City won the FA Cup in May of 1987.
In 2005, Coventry became the first city in the UK to host the International Children's Games.[2]and [3]
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Arts and culture Venues
Theatre, art and music venues in Coventry include:
The Warwick Arts Centre: situated at the University of Warwick, Warwick Arts Centre comprises an art gallery, a theatre, a concert hall and a cinema. It is the second largest arts centre in the UK, after London's Barbican.
The Belgrade Theatre: one of the largest producing theatres in Britain, the 866 seat Belgrade was the first civic theatre to be opened in the UK following World War II.
Also currently being built is ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Benjamin Britten - Music One of Britten's best known works is The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946), which was composed to accompany Instruments of the Orchestra, an educational film produced by the British government. It has the subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, and takes a melody from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar as its central theme. Britten gives individual variations to each of the sections of the orchestra, starting with the woodwind, then the string instruments, the brass instruments and finally the percu ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Places of interest Coventry Cathedral is Coventry's most well known landmark and visitor attraction. The original 14th century cathedral was largely destroyed by German bombing during the war, leaving only the outer walls and spire. The new Coventry Cathedral was opened in 1962 next to the ruins of the old. It was designed by Basil Spence and contains the tapestry, "Christ in Majesty" by Graham Sutherland and the bronze statue of St Michael and the Devil by Jacob Epstein. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, regarded by some as his masterpiece, wa ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Coventry - Politics Traditionally a part of Warwickshire (although it was a county in its own right for 400 years), Coventry became an independent county borough in 1889 and later a metropolitan district of the West Midlands county in 1974. In 1986 the West Midlands County Council was abolished, and Coventry became administered as an effective unitary authority.
Unlike other towns in the West Midlands, Coventry is still strongly associated with its traditional county, Warwickshire. This may be because of its geographical location, formin ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Architecture of the United Kingdom - Stuart architecture The Civil War 1642—49 proved to be the last time in British history that houses had to survive a siege. Corfe Castle was destroyed following an attack by Oliver Cromwell's army, but Compton Wynyates survived a similar ordeal. After this date houses were built purely for living, and design and appearance were for ever more important than defence.
Just prior to the Civil War, Inigo Jones, who is regarded as the first significant British architect, came to prominence. He was responsible for importing the Palladian manner of architecture to Britain from ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - History of Coventry - Industrialisation In the 18th century Coventry became home to a number of French immigrants, who brought with them silk and ribbon weaving skills, which became the basis of Coventry's economy. Coventry began to recover, and again became a major centre of a number of clothing trades.
During the 19th century Coventry became a centre of a number of industries, including watch and clock making, manufacture of sewing machines, and from the 1880s onwards bicycle manufacture, which was pioneered by James Starley. Due to t ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Dresden Frauenkirche - History The Frauenkirche was built as a Lutheran (Protestant) cathedral, even though Saxony's elector, Frederick August I (1670-1733), was Catholic. His support of the church's construction made the church an important symbol of religious tolerance.
The original baroque church was built between 1726 and 1743 and was designed by Dresden's city architect George Bähr (1666-1738), one of the greatest masters of German Baroque style, who did not live to see the completion of his greatest work. Bähr's distinctive design for the church captured the new spirit of the Protestant liturgy by placing the altar, chancel, and baptismal font direc ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - History of Coventry - Early history Coventry is traditionally believed to have been established in the year 1043 with the founding of a Benedictine Abbey by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva. Current evidence suggests that this abbey was probably in existence by 1022, therefore Leofric and Godiva most likely endowed it around 1043. In time, a market was established at the abbey gates and the settlement expanded.
By the 13th century Coventry had become a centre of many textile trades, especially those related to wool. Coventry's prosperity rested largely on the dyers who produced "Coventry blue" cloth, which was highly sought ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Architecture of the United Kingdom - Twentieth century architecture At the beginning of the 20th century a new form of design arts and crafts became popular, the architectural form of this style, which had evolved from the 19th century designs of such architects as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Devey, was championed by Edwin Lutyens. Arts and crafts in architecture is symbolized by an informal, non symmetrical form, often with mullioned or lattice windows, ...
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| | | | | Coventry Cathedral: Encyclopedia II - Architecture of the United Kingdom - Victorian architecture In the early 19th century the romantic medieval gothic style appeared as a backlash to the symmetry of Palladianism, and such buildings as Fonthill Abbey were built. By the middle of the 19th century, as a result of new technology, construction was able to develop incorporating steel as a building component; one of the greatest exponents of this was Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace. Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore Towers, in the still popular retrospective Renaissance styles. In this era of prosperity and ...
See also:Architecture of the United Kingdom, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Pre-Roman architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Roman architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Anglo-Saxon architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Medieval architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Tudor architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Stuart architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Georgian architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Victorian architecture, Architecture of the United Kingdom - Twentieth century architecture Read more here: » Architecture of the United Kingdom: Encyclopedia II - Architecture of the United Kingdom - Victorian architecture |
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