Skybluefaz
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On now, the craftsmanship and design are incredible aren't they. I don't care for it in any religious way, but there is so much beauty in that building. Basil Spence done good the boy.
Coventry Cathedral BBC 4 (1 Viewer)
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Somerset Sky Blue
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It was an excellent programme, very enjoyable!
The techniques, craftspeople and lack of heavy machinery...wow!
The techniques, craftspeople and lack of heavy machinery...wow!
Johnnythespider
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Great programme, a fantastic building with great art and a city of 4 spires
Skybluefaz
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All the windows are impressive but the John Hutton engraved windows are my favourite. Also love the Geoffrey Clarke sculptures.
hill83
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I’ve got a drawing of one of the windows I did on a school visit there when I was about 6.
What happened with the one that got smashed last year?
Skybluefaz
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No idea how they will repair/replace it. Seems there was a fundraiser going on but can't find much info other than that.
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One of the top triumphs of the building I think. I think in years to come they will only increase in their regard. So original, so brave and, as I say, a triumph.
Whilst those who share in the City's roots will have been easily absorbed as we watched, I wish there were more of these sorts of programmes, using footage and simple commentary, rather than having some cool/quirky middle-class academic doing their amateur dramatic best to help us re-live the past (quite a turn off for me). A bit more 'World at War' sort of style.
PS - I do think the christening bowl is a bit shit, and I've never quite understood the symbolism of the ikea coat hangers that dangle down over the pulpit.
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BBC Four - Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain
The story of the 1962 rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after its destruction in WWII.
Sky Blue Pete
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There’s a blank piece of glass in there at the moment. Looks like it could possibly be replaced if not they are raising £20000
Invited artists will be doing something for a period of time, the first one soon
Links to donate are here - Coventry Cathedral Church of St. Michael - Donate now
Wife works there
Invited artists will be doing something for a period of time, the first one soon
Links to donate are here - Coventry Cathedral Church of St. Michael - Donate now
Wife works there
Kneeza
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It was a wonderful watch (in fact, the only bit I didn't like was the presenter getting grumpy about the font. Personally I love it for its starkness and symbolism).
Being an old twat myself, I remember donating to the fund for the Children's Window when I was at Longford Park Primary; I still have the bookmark depicting it that they gave us.
One of the strongest memories of my childhood is being picked up from school on a Corporation bus and taken to the service there (I guess it wasn't the actual one the Queen attended, but one of a series for us plebs; that detail is hazy).
I also still have the booklet handed to us at that.
I also recall, a few years later, the fleche falling down, and subsequently being replaced by helicopter. We watched that from Broadgate - no Cathedral Lanes back then.
I'm not religious, but I bloody love that building, and always refer to it as MY Cathedral.
Being an old twat myself, I remember donating to the fund for the Children's Window when I was at Longford Park Primary; I still have the bookmark depicting it that they gave us.
One of the strongest memories of my childhood is being picked up from school on a Corporation bus and taken to the service there (I guess it wasn't the actual one the Queen attended, but one of a series for us plebs; that detail is hazy).
I also still have the booklet handed to us at that.
I also recall, a few years later, the fleche falling down, and subsequently being replaced by helicopter. We watched that from Broadgate - no Cathedral Lanes back then.
I'm not religious, but I bloody love that building, and always refer to it as MY Cathedral.