by Blitzkid » Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:30 am
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL and the last CRUSADE
Coventry Cathedral was built in the reign of HENRY V1 of solid blocks of stone. The most beautiful steeple began in 1372 took over twenty years to build, and considered best in all Europe., a tower enriched with saintly figures on the sides an Octagon rising out of it, that lengthened into an elegant spire, the height of the steeple and length the same, three hundred and three feet the width one hundred and four feet, inside light and lofty, consisting of a body and two aisles, divided by four rows of high and airy pillars and arches.
Knowing that many stone buildings in the last centuries in the HOLY LAND had fallen, by tunnelling and then set on fire, the heat cracked the mortar, bringing the stone buildings to the floor. the Cathedral laid a stone floor and placed the roof of wood , lead and tar high above.
But by the twentieth century, Hitler made it is number one target to undermine the peoples morale, and plea for appeasement, decided to do the same, set fire to it, not by tunnelling but by the roof, completely successful, the mortar cracked, and the pillars collapsed, and COVENTRY lost it's beautiful church.
Five years later and Blitz-kid spent two years, roaming the Holy land, even staying for a week in the only remaining stone fortress from those days of Crusaders, built on a rock base, next to the beach, having the scars of that era, it really did take you back in time.