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Title: Bell's Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry
A Short History of the City and Its Medieval Remains

Author: Frederic W. Woodhouse

Release Date: February 11, 2007 [EBook #11403]

Language: English

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[Illustration: COVENTRY, THE THREE SPIRES.]

THE CHURCHES OF COVENTRY

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE
CITY & ITS MEDIEVAL
REMAINS

BY
FREDERIC W. WOODHOUSE

WITH XL ILLUSTRATIONS

[Illustration: ARMS OF COVENTRY]

LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1909

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOK COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

PREFACE

The principal authorities for the history of Coventry and its churches
have been Dugdale's "Antiquities of Warwickshire" and the "Illustrated
Papers and the History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry," by
Thomas Sharp, edited by W.G. Fretton (1871). Besides these the many
papers by Mr. Fretton in the Transactions of the Birmingham and
Midland Institute and other Societies, and the "History and
Antiquities of Coventry" by Benjamin Poole (1870) have been the main
sources of historical information. The Author is, however, responsible
for the architectural opinions and descriptions, which are mainly the
outcome of a lifelong acquaintance with the city and its buildings,
fortified by several