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Medieval Coventry is delighted to be involved in this exciting new project approved last week. The transfer of the portfolio of heritage assets by Coventry City Council to Historic Coventry Trust has been lauded by heritage agency Historic England as by far the largest and most ambitious in the UK to date. In total there are 22 individual properties including Whitefriars Gate, the two remaining medieval city wall gates, as well as 19th-ccentury Drapers Hall, on the site of Coventry’s medieval Great Drapery. For more information click here.

Medieval Coventry welcomes this exciting news, and is now working with the bid team to ensure the city’s medieval treasures are given the attention they deserve in a ‘heritage-led’ tourism and local education approach.

27 to 29 September 2017. A paper on ‘Multisensory Virtual Experience of Tanning in Medieval Coventry’ was delivered to the Eurographics Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

29 September 2017. Our conference on Medieval Coventry attracted over 100 people. Please click here to view videos of the conference talks and click here to download a copy of the conference programme. We hope to publish a volume of the conference proceedings in 2018.

29 November 2017. The Medieval Coventry charity participated in a very successful Schools Curriculum Planning event, organised by Historic England. Seven heritage partners met with teachers from Coventry and as far afield as Stratford to share information about their work in delivering heritage resources to schools.  Heritage Schools Coventry HAZ CPD

The Medieval Coventry charity is now on the Board of the Heritage Action Zone for Coventry. The board is chaired by Historic England and involves heritage partners in the city including Culture Coventry, City of Coventry Archaeology, Coventry Cathedral, Priory Visitor Centre, Coventry University and the Coventry Society.

Medieval Coventry partners with Culture Coventry to apply for Arts Council England Designation Status for Coventry’s nationally important medieval documentary and archaeological archive.