Moonlight Sonata
10. The spire of Holy Trinity
oil on canvas, 61 cm x 51 cm, Iain White £425
The Spire of Holy Trinity (on the left)
Rivalry between Coventry’s two medieval landlords resulted in two parish churches, the newly (1450) rebuilt St Michaels and Holy Trinity, right beside each other on either side of their mutual boundary. The new St Michael’s is one of the largest parish churches in England, famous for being the tallest of the ‘three spires of Coventry’, the others being the spire of the church next door, Holy Trinity, and that of Christ Church, Greyfriars. All three are shown here across Greyfriars Green in a C19 photograph by Wyatt Wingate
