1.1.1 Defining the Site

PRELIMINARIES

1.1.1 DEFINING THE SITE Coventry Cathedral (‘the site’) encompasses those structures used as part of the active place of worship that are incorporated into the Grade I listing. Whilst made up of a number of different structures, the Cathedral as a whole is defined as a single building within this report. These include the structures of the new cathedral, the ruined cathedral and the precinct. When these elements need specific reference, they will be referred to by their individual names, with ‘the Cathedral’ encompassing all three elements. The structural components that make up the Cathedral as a whole will not be capitalised within this report unless they are proper nouns.

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PRIORY ROW • new cathedral: The part of the Cathedral building designed by

Spence.

• ruined cathedral: The part of the Cathedral building formed by the surviving remains of the bombed Cathedral of St

Michael.

• cathedral precinct: Immediate landscape setting and ancillary buildings within the red line of Ecclesiastical Exemption.

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COPE STREET Location Coventry is the nineth largest city in England and the second largest in the West Midlands after Birmingham. Historically part of Warwickshire, it now forms a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. It is 19 miles from Birmingham and 11 miles north of Warwick. Coventry claims the title of being the most central city in England.01

Clarifications When the new and ruined cathedrals are discussed, the cardinal points will be used in reference to liturgical directions rather than geographical. The only exception to this is in the sections on setting and views, which will be geographical.

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Extent of the Cathedral red line boundary (Ecclesiastical Exemption) and the blue line scope of the CMP (cathedral precinct) Location of the Cathedral within Coventry. This plan is not to scale. Base plan © Landsat/Copernicus. 01 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry