Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. A Medieval Cathedral, church, ruin. 1 related planning application.
Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- keen-pavement-violet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry South MP: Zarah Sultana (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1955
- Type
- Cathedral, church, ruin
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael, St Michael's Avenue, CV1 5EX
- OS grid reference
- SP 335 789
- Coordinates
- 52.40794, -1.50802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael is one of the largest medieval parish churches in England. It became a collegiate church in 1908 and was designated as a cathedral in 1918. The church suffered significant damage during an air raid in November 1940, which left the body of the church unroofed and without arcades.
The structure includes a nave and chancel with aisles, and two pairs of chapels located to the north and south of the nave aisles, with one chapel on the south still retaining its roof. There is a south porch and an apsidal sanctuary that features a crypt. The impressive west steeple, which dominates the center of the city, was constructed between 1373 and 1394, with the spire beginning in 1432. The church walls were rebuilt between 1373 and around 1450, and the stonework was restored from 1883 to 1890 by J Oldrid Scott.
Local climate
Ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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