Coventry Cathedral BBC 4 (2 Viewers)

Skybluefaz

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• Jun 9, 2021

• #1

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.

 

Somerset Sky Blue

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• Jun 9, 2021

• #2

It was an excellent programme, very enjoyable!
The techniques, craftspeople and lack of heavy machinery...wow!

 

Johnnythespider

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• Jun 9, 2021

• #3

Great programme, a fantastic building with great art and a city of 4 spires

 

hill83

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #4

Enjoyed that, thanks for the post

 

pipkin73

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #5

Good watch, enjoyed it.

 

Skybluefaz

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #6

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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• Jun 10, 2021

• #7

Skybluefaz said:

All the windows are impressive but the John Hutton engraved windows are my favourite. Also love the Geoffrey Clarke sculptures. View attachment 20406

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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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• Jun 10, 2021

• #8

hill83 said:

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?

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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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• Jun 10, 2021

• #9

Skybluefaz said:

All the windows are impressive but the John Hutton engraved windows are my favourite. Also love the Geoffrey Clarke sculptures. View attachment 20406

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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.

 

Nick

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #10

Is it on iPlayer?

 

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Deleted member 4439

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #11

BBC Four - Coventry Cathedral: Building for a New Britain

The story of the 1962 rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after its destruction in WWII.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

Nick

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• Jun 10, 2021

• #12

I thank you.

 

speedie87

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• Jun 16, 2021

• #13

Just watched this on iPlayer. Great programme can’t get enough of the old footage from Coventry

 

Sky Blue Pete

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• Jun 17, 2021

• #14

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

 

Kneeza

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• Jun 18, 2021

• #15

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.