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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

Left a roofless shell by the Luftwaffe raid of 14 November 1940, the medieval Cathedral Church of St Michael in Coventry became one of Britain's most powerful symbols of wartime destruction and post-war reconciliation. Only the tower, spire, outer walls and the tomb of its first bishop survived the firestorm of the Coventry Blitz, and the ruins remain hallowed ground, listed at the highest grade. The original St Michael's was built largely between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuri...