Coventry cathedral to Coventry station up-and-down route

Difficulty Moderate

Walking time 19 minutes

Length 1.1km / 0.7mi

Route developer: Les Fawcett

Route checker: Jane Reeves

Start location Coventry Cathedral

Route Summary An alternative route that involves flights of steps or steep ramps.

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Getting there

Arriving by coach on a dedicated cathedral visit, visitors will be dropped close to the cathedral.

Arriving by car there are numerous car parks but all a walk away from the cathedral. The nearest is Fairfax St between Coventry Sports Centre ("the elephant over the road") and the Gala Bingo Centre. From there walk under the green concrete student residence that bridges the road and up to the cathedral.

There are free toilets in Pool Meadow bus station, adjacent to Gala Bingo. They are open in the daytime.

Description

[1] From the cathedral steps in Priory St, descend the steps or the ramp, turn right and turn right again round the corner of the old cathedral.

Photo 1. New and old cathedrals.

After a short distance turn left into St Marys St and walk the length of the street.

You will be walking along the side of the Council house, Coventry's main civic building. Note the scant remains of Coventry castle (A) in the garden on your left, and the information boards there.

[2] At the end of the street cross Earl St, taking care as this is a busy road, turn right and walk under the red brick building, turning left by the building entrance doors, and cross the grassed area on the diagonal path. Walk past Civic Centre 1, the magistrates court and the police station on your left.

[3] Walk down through the underpass, over the bridge over the ring road and under another underpass, following signs for the station. This involves flights of steps or steep ramps.

Photo 4. (B) Coventry martyrs' memorial by the walkway.

Photo 2. Steps or ramp? Take your pick.

Photo 3. The flight of steps up to Park Road.

Exit the underpass to Park Road and walk the length of Park Road on the left hand side, heading towards the large multi-storey office building, and cross the crossroads at Manor Road.

[4] Walk under the building that spans the road and then turn left and cross the garden and the taxi rank to enter the station.

POI information

B The martyrs were a disparate group of protestant christians executed in the city between 1512 – 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men). Eleven of them are commemorated by a six-metre high monument, erected in 1910 in a public garden in the city, between Little Park Street and Mile Lane. Some of the streets in the city’s Cheylesmore suburb are named after them.

The site of the executions in the manorial park at Cheylesmore, just south of the city wall at the time, was known into the nineteenth century. But it was not until the early part of the twentieth century that public pressure for a monument led to a mayoral committee being formed in 1908, and the erection of the monument in 1910. Carved in Cornish granite, it was funded from an appeal that raised £200, a significant sum of money at the time

Notes No details available.

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Old and new cathedrals.
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Steps or ramp, take your pick.
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Exit from underpass to Park Road. There is a ramped alternative exit.
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Cheylesmore Martyrs memorial
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