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NeilsYard
Coventry
61 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 12:01pm  

Not sure if you've seen this, Helen, but I hadn't. Shared thanks to John Miles on the Visit Historic Coventry FB page. Apparently it's in the roof space at Bonds Hospital.
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Helen F
Warrington
62 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 2:09pm  

Nice one Thumbs up Images of the inside Bablake are a bit lacking. I've got a fair bit of the front range but the right hand range is very sparse for pictures.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
63 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 3:17pm  

Interesting graffiti Thumbs up
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
64 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 4:48pm  

That photograph appears on page 203 in the book For So Long As the World Shall Endure (The 500 Year History of Bond's and Ford's Almshouses), 2019, and this explanation (largely guesswork) is offered....
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Helen F
Warrington
65 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 5:18pm  

It's described as being in the roof space but was there originally a ceiling below to hide it or was it open to the rafters? The Great Fire of London might have been a moment of quiet schadenfreude for Coventry because it had long since banned thatched roofs because the hazard they presented.
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Tamworth
66 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 6:54pm  

Helen, have you noticed it is another J before a number as on the Little Palace Yard arbour and also fleur de lys.
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Helen F
Warrington
67 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 7:15pm  

Yes Anne, I was thinking about that. So the J is a 1?
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Tamworth
68 of 72  Wed 4th Jan 2023 8:11pm  

Yes, it looks like it. Which means that the one on the arbour is likely a date as well. Searching for the rose with a crown on top on google comes up with a Lord Lieutenant's badge. I wonder if that could be anything with the one in the roof space.
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Helen F
Warrington
69 of 72  Thu 4th Apr 2024 3:21pm  

While there are interior images in various forms out there, I've never been able to piece together all the rooms for the ancient school or Bond's hospital, with the latter particularly lacking in information. I don't even have a floor plan for the hospital. Has there ever been any attempt to document the buildings?

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Tamworth
70 of 72  Fri 5th Apr 2024 10:47am  

Helen, there are some interesting illustrations on here of the outside. It is well worth looking in Google books for old books on miscellaneous subjects.
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Tamworth
71 of 72  Fri 5th Apr 2024 10:57am  

From another book on google books.
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Helen F
Warrington
72 of 72  Fri 5th Apr 2024 11:08am  

Thanks Anne Double thumbs up I'd already seen and subsequently bought the Pugin book but only seen part of the second. I've matched images to most of the plan of the ground floor of the school and guestimated the layout of the upstairs and placed a few of the images. But that's the first that I've seen of the Bond's hospital part. I shall rummage through Google books.
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