Historic Cities
Explore Coventry in 1450
AI rebuilds Coventry street by street, and you explore through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Coventry, The Wool and Thread City, 1450
Coventry in 1450 stands at its medieval height: a wealthy cloth town whose dyers, weavers and guilds send ‘Coventry blue’ across England and beyond. The walk traces the walled city's three spires, crowded markets, guildhall and the narrow lanes of craftsmen, from the outer approach and gatehouses through Broadgate and Bayley Lane to a broad view from the eastern parkland.
23 scenes, 16 streets, squares and views, 7 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Coventry as it stood in 1450 (“History of Coventry”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Warwick Road Approach
- 2. New Gate
- 3. Cooke Street Gate
- 4. Broadgate
- 5. Cross Cheaping Market
- ↳ Cloth Hall under Timber Roof · interior
- 6. Bayley Lane
- ↳ Dyer's Vat-House and Drying Loft · interior
- 7. St Mary's Priory
- 8. St Mary's Guildhall
- ↳ Great Hall beneath the Angel Roof · interior
- 9. St Michael's Church
- ↳ Parish Nave and Aisles · interior
- 10. Holy Trinity
- ↳ Chancel with the Doom Painting · interior
- 11. Greyfriars Spire
- 12. Spon Street
- ↳ Top-Shop Loom Chamber · interior
- 13. Whitefriars Precinct
- ↳ Cloister Walk and Garth · interior
- 14. Bablake Gate and Parish
- 15. Priors Gate Wall Walk
- 16. Cheylesmore Park View