Lady Godiva Statue Coventry, England
Listed Building Data
Lady Godiva Statue has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1031589
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 15 April 1998
- Name
- LADY GODIVA STATUE
- Location
- LADY GODIVA STATUE, BROADGATE
- District
- Coventry
- Grid Reference
- SP 33403 79003
- Easting
- 433403.0000
- Northing
- 279003.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SP 3379 SW COVENTRY BROADGATE (east side) 833/4/10097 Lady Godiva statue
II*
Equestrian figure of Lady Godiva. 1949 by Sir Williain Reid Dick, sculptor, at the expense of William Bassett-Green. Bronze statue on Portland stone base. Rectangular plinth with overhanging cavetto moulding, a podium with cavetto and roll mouldings at the base and battered sides. The design of the base is reminiscent of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who had died in 1944 but with whom Dick had frequently worked. The statue symbolised the regeneration of Coventry after its bombing and was donated to boost morale at a time when rebuilding work was delayed by shortages. It was intended as the focal point of Broadgate, and originally faced the clock tower of Broadgate House where it could be seen by 'Peeping Tom'. Lady Godiva was turned through ninety degrees in 1990, to face the entrance to the Upper Precinct and to lie on axis between the Lower Precinct and Cathedral.
Listing NGR: SP3340379003
