Coventry Cathedral Ruins

Coventry is the city of Lady Godiva and the ruins of Coventry Cathedral of Saint Michael. The ruins commemorate the bombing of the city in World War II; this is the same view in 1941 during a Churchill visit.

But, Lady Godiva and her husband were associated with a different cathedral - St Mary's Priory and Cathedral - which is close by. Earl Leofric was buried there in 1057 and it is assumed that Lady Godiva was buried there too when she died 10 years later. This cathedral was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th century - the only English cathedral destroyed during the Reformation - so the remains are surely gone. Some ruins survive though - like the original west wall shown below: