
Coventry participated in the first World Monuments Watch Day on Saturday 8th September 2012 with a children's stained glass workshop and treasure trail.
Coventry participated in the first World Monuments Watch Day on Saturday 8th September 2012 with a children's stained glass workshop and treasure trail.
Horace Walpole assembled a large collection of over 450 pieces of stained glass at Strawberry Hill and was regarded as one of England's first collectors. He glazed the upper parts of his windows with imported painted glass much of which was Netherlandish roundels.
Coventry Cathedral is home to Britain's largest collection of loose medieval glass dating from the 15th century.
St Michael's in Coventry was the only British Cathedral to be destroyed in World War II, and its iconic ruins have stood as vivid and moving testimony for over seventy years.