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The Charred Cross was created after the cathedral was bombed during the Coventry Blitz of the Second World War. The cathedral stonemason, Jock Forbes, saw two wooden beams lying in the shape of a cross and tied them together. A replica of the Charred Cross built in 1964 has replaced the original in the ruins of the old cathedral on an altar of ...
A Coventry Cross of Nails (in German, Nagelkreuz von Coventry) is a Christian cross made from iron nails, employed as a symbol of peace and reconciliation. The original version was made from three large medieval nails salvaged from the Coventry Cathedral after the building was severely damaged by German bombs on 14 November 1940, during the ...
Coventry Cross was an important landmark in the cathedral city of Coventry, England. Standing between Cuckoo Lane and Holy Trinity Church and in the alley known as Trinity Churchyard, it was a modern version of the historic market cross , such as was common in many medieval market towns.
Steven Barry Sykes (30 August 1914 – 22 January 1999) was a British artist, known for his Gethsemane Chapel in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral.He was active in the British desert camouflage unit in the Second World War, and was responsible for the dummy railhead at Misheifa and for the effective camouflage and large-scale military deception in the defence of Tobruk in 1942.
He was commissioned to create the cross of nails for Coventry Cathedral and also worked on three of the nave windows between 1957 and 1962. [5] In 1965 he had a retrospective at The Redfern Gallery, London and his work is also held at the Tate Gallery. [6] Clarke was made a Royal Academician in 1975.
George Wagstaffe (born 1930) is an English sculptor based in Coventry. [1] He is predominantly known for his three iconic pieces of public art for the redevelopment of Coventry City Centre in the 1960s such as the Phoenix in Hertfort Street, Naiad in the Upper Precinct, and his replica of the Coventry Cross outside Holy Trinity Church, which was temporarily removed in 2019, [2] [3] before ...
Provost Howard (left) with Winston Churchill in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, 28 September 1941. Richard Thomas Howard (12 June 1884 [1] – 1 November 1981 [2]) was an Anglican priest and author. [3]
Coventry Cathedral [2] More images: Ecce Homo: South wall of Coventry Cathedral ruins approx 1969 () Sir Jacob Epstein: Sculpture: Subiaco marble: Coventry Cathedral [2] Christ: Coventry Cathedral ruins: After 1943 () Alain John: Concrete: Coventry Cathedral [2] Choir of Survivors