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22 Bayley Lane Bablake School & Bond's Hospital, Hill Street Cheylesmore Manor House Christchurch, New Union Street Council House, Earl Street Coventry Cross Doom Painting, Holy Trinity Church Ford's Hopital, Greyfriars Lane Georgian House, Priory Row Golden Cross Public House Guildhall, Bayley Lane Holy Trinity Church Lychgate Cottages, Priory Row Old Grammar School, Hales Street Pepper Lane & Bayley Lane River Sherbourne - Palmer Lane & beyond Spon Street St. John's Church, Fleet Street St. Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane Unknown Ruin, Much Park Street Whitefriars Gate Whitefriars Monastery

Old Spon Street

Just around the corner from Hill Street is Spon Street where there is still a high concentration of Tudor aged buildings. Many of them are not original to the street and have been rebuilt there after being saved from demolition in other streets and a preservation order is in place to ensure their survival.
This practice of moving structures from their roots is now generally considered undesirable and it is now preferred, wherever possible, to leave a building in-situ and look at its history within the location as a complete picture.

As you enter Spon Street from Fleet Street, the view on the left will greet you.


If you'd like to see each old building in more detail, please take a look at the Spon Street Photo Gallery
Coventry's own origins lay within the forest of Arden, and a reminder of this beginning comes in the form of a deed from the 13th century referring to two pieces of land which lay between the wood of Spon (spelt Spanna) and the wood of Assehowe. It's likely that the area now covered by Spon End was then still uncleared woodland.

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Bablake & Bonds, Hill Street < - Medieval Spon Street - > Christchurch

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