NeilsYard
Coventry |
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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 |
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Wed 4th Jan 2023 2:09pm
Nice one 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 |
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Wed 4th Jan 2023 3:17pm
Interesting graffiti |
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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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 |
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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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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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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 |
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Wed 4th Jan 2023 7:15pm
Yes Anne, I was thinking about that. So the J is a 1? |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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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 |
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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? Question |
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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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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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Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Fri 5th Apr 2024 10:57am
From another book on google books.
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Fri 5th Apr 2024 11:08am
Thanks Anne 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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