Yanagiya Choir Academy 柳谷クワイヤー・アカデミーA Japanese Tenor's Cathedral Challenge
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Coventry Cathedral

Burnt out in the raid of 14 November 1940. After the war it was not rebuilt: the shell was left standing, and a new cathedral was raised beside it. I went three times in August 2026.

Last updated: 4 September 2026

  • The surviving wall of the old cathedral beside the new one, with Epstein's bronze St Michael on the wall
  • The roofless interior of the old cathedral, its windows empty of glass
  • The ruined altar: a cross of charred beams, and FATHER FORGIVE carved into the wall in gold
  • Looking up from the ruined altar to the sky beyond the window tracery
  • A bronze sculpture of two figures kneeling in an embrace
  • The plaque beside the sculpture, inscribed in both Japanese and English
  • The interior of the Chapel of Unity, ringed with narrow windows
  • The mosaic floor of the Chapel of Unity
  • The great stained-glass window above the stone font
  • The surviving spire and the new cathedral, seen from a distance
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