Memorials and blue plaques in Coventry
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Coventry. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this England city, and to visit them in person.
192 locations, organised A to Z.
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Bahne Bonniksen
16 Norfolk Street

Benjamin Bird
1 Earlsdon Street

Bert Holmes
Platform 1 - Coventry Station

Bishop Street Cafe
Canal Basin Bridge - Bishop Street

Black plaque № 39282
Much Park Street

Black plaque № 39293
Lady Herbert's Garden - Hales Street

Black plaque № 49363
London Road

Black plaque № 49425
Earlsdon Avenue South

Black plaque № 49457
Spon Street

Black plaque № 54971
The Koco Building, Arches Industrial Estate, Spon End

Black plaque № 55620
1 Far Gosford Street

Black plaque № 69900
Middle Ride

Black plaque № 70828
Prologis Park

Black plaque № 70890
Much Park Street

Black plaque № 70892
36 and 37 Much Park Street

Black plaque № 70956
Priory Street

Black plaque № 71056
Little Park Street

Black plaque № 71154
Coventry Canal

Black plaque № 71649
13-29 Lower Holyhead Road

Blue Coat School, Coventry
Blue Coat School - Priory Gardens

Blue Coat School, Coventry
Priory Gardens

Blue plaque № 13085
35 Mount Street

Blue plaque № 48650
11 Lower Holyhead Road

Blue plaque № 48651
13 Allesley Old Road

Blue plaque № 48652
21 Allesley Old Road

Blue plaque № 48653
11 Craven Street

Blue plaque № 48654
164 Allesley Old Road

Blue plaque № 48655
51 Allesley Old Road

Blue plaque № 48656
24 Bedford Street

Blue plaque № 48657
5 Broomfield Place

Blue plaque № 48658
123 Upper Spon Street

Blue plaque № 48659
1 Hearsall Lane

Blue plaque № 49226
108 Earlsdon Avenue South

Blue plaque № 70726
Gwendolyn Drive

Blue plaque № 70826
The Firs

Blue plaque № 70827
The Firs

Blue plaque № 70893
82 London Road

Blue plaque № 71156
Butts Park Arena.

Blue plaque № 71715
Craven Street

Blue plaque № 71716
Craven Street

Blue plaque № 71717
107 Craven Street

Blue plaque № 71946
124 Cedars Avenue

Blue plaque № 72017
28 Short Street

Blue plaque № 73798
2 Poultney Road

Blue plaque № 74499
West Orchards

Bond's Hospital, Coventry
Lower Hill Street, Spon End

Brass plaque № 39287
Priory Row - Priory Gardens

Broadway
69 Albany Road

Bronze plaque № 55000
Hertford Street

Bronze plaque № 70771
Coventry railway station
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Canal Bridge
Canal Basin, Leicester Row

Canal House, Coventry
Canal House - Draper's Fields

Cathedral Church of St Michael
St Michael's Avenue

Chalkie Davies
Canal Basin

Charles Flint
22 Craven Street

Charles Read
Lord Street, Chapelfields

Charley Anderson
Holyhead Youth Club (now Artspace)

Cook Street Gate
Lady Herbert's Gardens

County Hall, Coventry
Cuckoo Lane

Coventry Canal Basin
Coventry Canal Basin - Rolt House - Leicester Row

Coventry Canal Basin
Units 1-4 Coventry Canal Basin

Coventry City Football Club
Signet Square

Coventry Council House
Earl Street

Coventry Municipal Technical College
Little Park Street

Coventry Theatre
Millennium Place - near Hales Street

Coventy & District Samaritans
Warwick Street
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George Eliot
Warwick Row

George Eliot
Greyfriars Green

George Rice
2 Mount Street

Green plaque № 30119
Corporation Street

Green plaque № 33181
Parkside

Green plaque № 48630
Criterion Theatre, Berkeley Road South

Green plaque № 48632
102 Berkeley Road South

Green plaque № 48634
4 Palmerston Road

Green plaque № 48719
Far Gosford Street

Green plaque № 71060
Coventry University Technology Park

Green plaque № 72018
Spencer Park

Grey plaque № 55002
Stoke Common, Binley Road

Grey plaque № 55859
nr 39 Binley Road

Greyfriars Gate, Coventry
Bull Yard
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PC Gavin Carlton
Torrington Avenue

Peeping Tom
Hertford Street

Pete Waterman OBE
Virgin Records/Soul Hole

Philip Larkin CH CBE FRSL
Platform 1 - Coventry Station

plaque № 70000
Allard Way

plaque № 70560
The Butts

plaque № 70561
Butts Road

plaque № 70562
Coombe Abbey

plaque № 70772
University Hospital

plaque № 70931
Banner Lane

plaque № 70957
Trinity Street

plaque № 71055
Little Park Street

plaque № 71057
Precinct

plaque № 71059
Alvis Retail Park, Holyhead Road

plaque № 71061
Coventry University Technology Park

plaque № 71220
Coventry Building Society Arena

plaque № 71253
Coventry Building Society Arena

plaque № 71254
Coventry Building Society Arena

plaque № 71255
Coventry Building Society Arena

plaque № 71256
Binley Road

plaque № 71286
Binley Road

plaque № 71287
Gosford Green

plaque № 71324
Exhall

plaque № 71418
177 Grange Road

plaque № 71419
177 Grange Road

plaque № 71420
Millennium Place

plaque № 71421
Lady Herbert's Garden

plaque № 71880
Earlsdon Street

plaque № 75919
Coventry Building Society Arena
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Samuel Ward
59 Moor Street

Shut Lane Mill
Gulson Road

Siegfried Bettmann
Elm Bank, North Avenue, Stoke Park

Sir Air Cdre Frank Whittle OM KBE CB FRS FRAeS
Millennium Place - near Hales Street

Sir Air Cdre Frank Whittle OM KBE CB FRS FRAeS
Hearsall Common

Sir Air Cdre Frank Whittle OM KBE CB FRS FRAeS
72 Newcombe Road

Sir Basil Spence OBE OM RA
Top Hill

Sir Donald Gibson CBE DCL MA PPRIBA
Upper Precinct Mall

Sir Donald Gibson CBE DCL MA PPRIBA
Upper Precinct Mall

Sir Frederick Gibberd RA
15 Clarendon Street

St Mary's Hall, Coventry
Bayley Lane

St Michaels Baptist Church
Bayley Lane

Stone plaque № 39283
Volgograd Place - under Ringway Swanswell

Stone plaque № 49583
Earlsdon Library, Earlsdon Avenue

Stone plaque № 49584
Stoke Library, Kingsway

Stone plaque № 49585
Foleshill Library, Broad Street

Swanswell Gate
Swanswell Gate - Hales Street
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The Golden Cross Inn
Bayley Lane

The Lychgate Cottages
Priory Row

The Old Grammar School (St John's Hospital)
Cnr Hales St and Bishop St

The Old Windmill
The Old Windmill - 21 Spon Street

The Quadrant
Warwick Road

The Specials
Lower Precinct

The Specials
The Hand and Heart

The Specials
Binley Oak

The Specials
Horizon Studios site on Rocket Pub, Warwick Road

The Specials
807 Foleshill Road (ex Heath Hotel)

The Specials
Coventry Station, Warwick Road

The Specials
Tiffany's Nightclub (Central Library)

Theatre Royal, Coventry
Former BHS - Upper Precinct
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Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
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