Tour Credits

Image and Music Information and Credits

Launch page

Bayley Lane and St Mary’s Hall
© Amanda Kay

Before you Begin

The walled city of Coventry from Cheylesmore Park, 18th century
From The London Gazette, 1752
Private Collection

Introduction

Header image: View of Coventry from the north-west
Watercolour by JMW Turner (1775–1751) c. 1832
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Image 1: Godiva Window, Holy Trinity Church
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 2: Coventry’s emblem – the elephant and castle
© Amanda Kay

Image 3: Gold finger ring, late 1400s
© The Trustees of the British Museum.
Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Image 4: Bayley Lane in 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_53.jpg

Image 5: John Thornton glass, 1400s
© World Monuments Fund Britain and Andy Marshall

Image 6: John Speed’s map of Coventry, 1610
In the Public Domain, licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-NC 3.0). Ref:
Atlas.2.61.1
© Cambridge University Library

Music: Ricarcare I
Adrian Willaert, early 1400s.
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 1 Origins and Earls

Header Image: Coventry Council House
© Andrew Paterson / Alamy Stock Photo (exp. 2026)

Image 1: Coventry Council House frontage
© Amanda Kay

Image 2: Gough Map, Forest of Arden c. 1360
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Terms of use: CC-BY-NC 4.0
Ref: MS. Gough Gen. Top. 16. The Gough Map of Great Britain

Image 3: Cheylesmore Manor Gatehouse, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_50.jpg

Image 4: Gold finger ring, late 1400s
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Image 5: Isabella of France arriving in England
Detail from des Grandes Chroniques de France enluminees by Jean Fouquet, 1460
© BNF Public Domain
From Gallica Digital Library and available under the digital ID btv1b10538041t/f740
Ref: Français 6465, folio 338, verso; Département des manuscrits; Bibliothèque nationale de France

Image 6: Coventry Charter of Incorporation, 1345
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: DSC3813

Image 7: Coventry Charter of Incorporation Seal, 1345
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: DSC3817

Stop Point 2 What’s in a Name?

Then Header Image: Earl Street, c.1860
Drawing by Nathaniel Troughton c. 1860

Now Header Image: Earl Street, 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Palace Yard Inn, Earl Street, 1906
Watercolour by Frederick Whitehead (1853–1938)
From: Warwickshire, Clive Holland, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1906

Image 2: Medieval chess piece
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 3: Wealthy women, stained glass, St Michael’s Church (Coventry Cathedral), 1400s
© Paul Gardner and Coventry Cathedral
http://museumimaging.co.uk

Image 4: Font and Nethermill Tomb, St Michael’s Church (Coventry Cathedral)
© J J Ward
Reproduced by kind permission of Julie Hill, great-granddaughter of photographer and publisher, J J Ward (1875–1947). J J Ward’s photographic archive can be found on the Coventry Digital website – https://coventry.digital/groupitem/40/

Music: My Lady Carey’s Dompe (dance)
Anonymous, c. 1524
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 3 Power and Pestilence

Then Header Image: Bayley Lane looking to St Michael’s Church, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_52.jpg

Now Header Image: Bayley Lane looking to Coventry Cathedral Ruins (St Michael’s Church), 2022
© Amanda Kay

Image 1: Jordan Well
Watercolour by Coventry artist, Herbert Edward Cox (1849–1941)
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 2: Plague victims in Tournai, c. 1353
Miniature by Pierart dou Tielt illustrating the Tractatus quartus bu Gilles li Muisit.
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doutielt3.jpg
Ref: ms. 13076-13077 fol. 24v

Image 3: Crypt/cellar in High Street
Lithograph by John Astley, 1881
Private Collection

Stop Point 4 Coventry, the Medieval Boom Town

Then Header Image: Drapers’ Hall and St Michael’s Church
Oil painting by Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876)
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Now Header Image: Drapers’ Hall and Coventry Cathedral (St Michael’s Church), 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Medieval drapers
IBN BUTLÂN Tacuinum sanitates
© BNF Public Domain
Ref: btv1b105072169 223 Page 104r; Latin 9333; Département des Manuscrits; Bibliothèque nationale de France

Image 2: Lease of a shop from Sir Robert Onley, Mayor of Coventry, 1491
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: BA_B_16_172_1_1

Image 3: Wool weight, 1300s
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 4: John Thornton glass, 1400s
© World Monuments Fund Britain and Andy Marshall

Image 5: Medieval dyers in the 1400s
© The Print Collector / Alamy Stock Photo (exp. 2026)

Stop Point 5 Castle Chapel to Largest Church

Then Image: St Michael’s Church and Holy Trinity
Oil painting by Edmund John Niemann (1813–1876)
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Now Image: Coventry Cathedral (St Michael’s Church), 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: The seal of Ralph Gernon, second earl of Chester, 1129–1153
In Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Victoria_history_of_the_county_of_Lancaster_-_Ranulf_Gernons,_Earl_of_Chester,_1129-1153.jpg

Image 2: Ralph Gernon’s coat of arms
In Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ranulf_de_gernon.svg

Image 3: Looking to Coventry from Cheylesmore Park
From The London Gazette, 1752
Private Collection

Image 4: Grant between Henry Haye & William Skikeneye and Adam & Margery Botoner, 1374
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: BA_B_16_24_3

Image 5: St Michael’s Church, 1802
Watercolour by William Crotch (1775–1847)
© Norwich Museums Service

Image 6: John Thornton Glass, 1400s
© Coventry Cathedral

Image 7: East end of St Michael’s Church, c. 1920s
Watercolour by A R Quinton (1853–1934)

Stop Point 6 A Royal Visitation

Then Header Image: Interior of St Michael’s Church, 1930s, looking towards the chancel, altar and apse.
Unknown photographer

Now Header Image: Coventry Cathedral (St Michael’s Church) interior, 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Henry VI worshipping at the shrine of St Edmund, 1433
© British Library
In Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Library_Henry_VI.jpg
Ref: Detail from Harley Manuscript 2278 f. 4v, c. 1449, British Library

Image 2: St Michael’s Church, 1930s
Watercolour painting by David Gee (1793–1872)
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 3: St Michael’s Church, Treasure Chest, 1200s © J J Ward
© J J Ward
Reproduced by kind permission of Julie Hill, great-granddaughter of photographer and publisher, J J Ward (1875–1947). J J Ward’s photographic archive can be found on the Coventry Digital website – https://coventry.digital/groupitem/40/

Image 4: Extract from Missa Caput, 1400s
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: 6865

Image 5: Medieval floor tile from St Michael’s Church
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Images 6 to 8: Medieval tiles from Stoke Pottery
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Music: Missa Caput Kyrie (extract) by the Binchois Consort
© Binchois Consort
The full performance can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iysiHAEhmq8

Stop Point 7 St Mary’s Priory – Gift of Godiva and Leofric

Then Header Image: The remains of the North-West Tower, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=william+henry+brooke+&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

Now Image: North-West Tower and former Blue Coat School, 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Earl Leofric and Edward the Confessor at Communion
Detail from a 13th-century abridgement of the Domesday Book
In Public Domain
© The National Archives UK @ Flickr Commons
Ref: E 36/284

Image 2: MS Godiva Window, Holy Trinity Church
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS
Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography
Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 3: Apocalypse painted and gilded stone fragment from St Mary’s Priory Chapter House
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 4: St Mary’s Priory Reconstruction
© Tagwar (permission pending)

Image 5: View of Coventry from the Priory mill pond, early 18th century
Engraved by Rawle from a drawing by the late J C Smith
Private Collection

Stop Point 8 St Mary’s Priory – Place of Parliament and Pilgrimage

Then Header Image: Priory Row
Unknown artist

Now Header Image: Priory Row, 2022
© Amanda Kay

Image 1: Artist’s impression of the 1459 parliament held at St Mary’s Priory Chapter House
© Sue Faulks
suefaulksart.co.uk

Image 2: Pilgrims receiving holy communion
Pèlerinage de la vie humaine, probably made c. 1430 for Sir Thomas Cumberworth of Somerby, Lincolnshire
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Terms of use: Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Ref: Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 740

Image 3: Medieval pilgrim badge
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 4: Pilgrims Rest Inn, early to mid-1800s
Engraving by Fred Taunton
From: Coventry, its History and Antiquities, Benjamin Poole, John Russell Smith, London, 1870

Image 5: St Mary’s Priory remains, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_08.jpg

Image 6: 1512 Procession to Henry VIII’s 1512 parliament
© Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Terms of use: Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0
Ref: Bodleian Library MS. Ash. Rolls 45

Music: Sancta Maria
John Dunstable, early 15th century
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 9 The Treasures of Holy Trinity

Then Header Image: Holy Trinity Church, c. 1850
Engraving published by H Meriden of Coventry

Now Header Image: Holy Trinity Church, 2022
© Amanda Kay

Image 1: Gold devotional pendant
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 2: Doorway to the Priest’s Room, Holy Trinity Church
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS
Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography
Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 3: Holy Trinity’s 14th-century font
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS
Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography
Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 4: PG Holy Trinity’s Doom painting, 1430s
© Paul Gardner and Holy Trinity
http://museumimaging.co.uk

Music: The Coventry Carol
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, part of the Feast of Corpus Christi cycle of medieval mystery plays. Trad., earliest copy written down by Robert Croo, March 1534.
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 10 The People of Holy Trinity

Then Header Image: Trinity Lane, 1920s
Drawing by Florence Weston (1868–1942)

Now Header Image: Trinity Lane, 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Edward III and the Black Prince
Initial letter "E" on a page of illuminated manuscript f.31 BL Cotton MS Nero D VI.
In Public Domain, www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/12459257494
Ref: British Library f.31 BL Cotton MS Nero D VI

Image 2: Queen Philippa of Hainault
From illumuninated manuscript, Chroniques de Froissart
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippa_of_Hainault.gif
Ref: BNF Fr2675-2676, Bibliothèque Département des manuscrits; Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Image 3: Marler Chapel, Holy Trinity Church
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS
Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography
Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 4: 15th-century pulpit, Holy Trinity Church
© Mandip Singh Seehra LRPS
Facebook: Mandip Singh Seehra Photography
Instagram: @mycoventry2021

Image 5: Trinity Lane from Priory Row, late 19th century
Warren Williams (1863–1941)

Music: Quam pulchra es
John Dunstable, early 15th century
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 11 Market Mayhem

Then Header Image: Butcher Row, c. 1830s
Oil painting by Florence Weston (1868–1942)
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Now Header Image: Trinity Street pavement, 2021
© Thomas Unsworth Photography
https://tomunsworthphoto.ueniweb.com

Image 1: Coventry Cross, completed in 1544
Reproduction of engraving by Fred Taunton (19th century)
By kind permission of Charlotte Buckley in memory of her parents, Philip and Susan Perry

Image 2: Medieval face jug
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 3: Medieval shoe
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Image 4: The Bull Ring
Watercolour by A R Quinton (1853–1934), 1930s

Image 5: Butcher Row
Oil painting by Samuel Lines (1777–1863), early 19th century
© Maidstone Museums

Image 6: Agreement between William Danyell and Henry Marler, 1481
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: BA_H_8_361_5

Image 7: West Orchard, 1883
Drawing by D Waters (19th century)
Private collection

Stop Point 12 Precious Goods in Pepper Lane

Then Header Image: Golden Cross Inn, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860).
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_06.jpg

Now Header Image: Golden Cross Inn, 2020
© Amanda Kay

Image 1: Medieval Spice merchant
Hausbuch der Mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung, Band 1. Nürnberg 1426–1549. Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg, Amb. 317.2° 1453
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mendel_I_075_r.jpg
Ref: Mendel_I_075_r

Image 2: Medieval market, goldsmiths and pewterers, 1400s
Lanmas / Alamy Stock Photo (exp. 2026)

Images 5 & 6: Edward IV Gold Ryals
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Images 7 & 8: Edward IV Silver Groats
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Image 9: Marriage between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, 1st May 1464
Illuminated miniature from Vol. 6 of the Anciennes chroniques d'Angleterre by Jean de Wavrin.
© BNF Public Domain
Ref: Francais_85_f109, Bibliothèque Département des manuscrits; Bibliothèque nationale de France

Music: So ys emprentid
John Bedyngham, early 15th century
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Stop Point 13 Guilds and Governance

Then Header Image: St Marys Hall
Engraving by Fred Taunton (19th century)
From: Coventry, its History and Antiquities, Benjamin Poole, John Russell Smith, London, 1870

Image 1: The medieval kitchen, St Mary’s Hall
Watercolour by Florence Weston (1868–1942), 19th century

Image 3: Bayley Lane, showing the buttery of St Mary’s Guildhall, early 19th century
Watercolour by John Varley (1778–1842)

Image 4: St Marys Hall Council Chamber
© Rock Drum
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Stop Point 14 Coventry – One-time Royal Seat of Power

Header Image: Caesars Tower
Watercolour by Herbert Edward Cox (1849–1941), 19th century
© Culture Coventry Trust/Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Images 2 & 3: Coventry’s Civic Sword
© Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museums
Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944.
Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Image 6: Edward IV letter in Coventry Leet Book, 5th March 1461
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: BA_E_6_37_1_1_187 2

Stop Point 15 Coronets and Conflicts

Header Image: St Marys Hall Courtyard, 1819

Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_27.jpg

Image 3: Coventry Leet Book entry, 29th June 1472, Clarence Jewels
© Culture Coventry Trust/Coventry Archives
Ref: BA_E_6_37_1_1_217 1

Image 4: The Black Bull Inn, Smithford Street, 1819
Watercolour by William Henry Brooke (1772–1860)
In the Public Domain, available under Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Henry_Brooke_-_%E2%80%98Coventry_1819%E2%80%99_-_The_Album_of_a_Visit_-_47.jpg

Music: A Robyn
William Cornysh, late 15th century/early 16th century
By kind permission of Jon Sayles www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm

Maps

The maps throughout the tour are adapted by Jenny Faulks (www.jennyfaulks.com) from OpenStreetMap, licensed and available under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (www.openstreetmap.org/copyright).
© OpenStreetMap contributors