Tourist attractions Warwick

Although regarded by traditionalists as too modern and by modernists as too traditional, Coventry Cathedral is one of the few modern buildings to meet with the approval of its visitors. The majestic porch was designed to link the new cathedral with t..

Built on the banks of the Avon on the site of a Norman mound and interior courtyard, which were probably originally a Saxon fortification, the castle was the fief of the Counts of Warwick . The castle is very much alive today, thanks to the scenes f..

Founded in 1571 by Robert Dudley (favourite of Queen Elizabeth I), the hospital includes a half-timbered house surrounding a charming courtyard. The oldest parts are the chapel, dating back to 1383, and the town hall, built in 1450 by Warwick, the &q..

Enormous and inspiring terror, these ruins were in the 13C the home of Simon de Montfort. King Edward II, all dressed in black, was kept prisoner here in the great hall before being led to Berkeley Castle for his execution in 1327. Fortified by Joh..

The half-timbered house where the dramatist was born is part museum (including a First Folio) and part shrine. Note the graffiti on the upstairs windows (Scott, Carlyle, Ellen Terry and Henry Irving).

Shakespeare's eldest daughter, Susanna, married a physician, John Hall, and the couple lived here until around 1616. The restored house part 16C, part 17C, contains furniture and paintings from this period, notes about the physician's patients and a ..

The late 13C building with large-scale Decorated and Perpendicular additions was destroyed in 1940. All that remains are the walls, crypt, tower and the 90 m spire , one of the architectural glories of England, exceeded in height only by Norwich and..

Coventry was the birthplace of the British car industry - with Daimler in 1896 - and subsequently home to over 100 manufacturers (Daimler, Rover, Riley, Lea & Francis, Hillman, Triumph, etc.). The Museum of British Road Transport illustrates the in..

Built in 1123, this collegiate was rebuilt after a fire in 1694. It owes its fame to Beauchamp Chapel (15 C), which contains the tomb , decorated with a fine gilded bronze reclining figure, of Richard Beauchamp, Count of Warwick, and that of Robert ..

It opened in 1932 as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and is now the headquarters of the Royal Shakespeare Company . Adjoining it is the Swan Theatre (1986), with a Jacobean apron-style stage and galleried seating, within the shell of an earlier the..

Of Shakespeare's retirement home, built in 1483, only the foundations remain but next door, in Nash's House , the home of Shakespeare's granddaughter, behind the much restored frontage, is an exhibition on the history of Stratford.

The Chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross (founded 1263), the ruling body of Stratford before the Reformation, is predominantly Perpendicular, with wall paintings of Christ, Mary, St John, St Peter and the Last Judgement in the chancel.

With an Early English tower and transept and Perpendicular nave, Holy Trinity church would be notable even without Shakespeare's grave on the north side of the chancel. "Blessed be the man who spares these stones / And cursed be he that moves my..

Much restored after war damage, the 1509 half-timbered almshouses form a tranquil courtyard with delightful plants and creepers in the heart of the modern city.

Founded in 1342, it was the prison of Mary Queen of Scots in 1569. Its treasures are two tapestries , one Flemish c 1500, showing Henry VII kneeling, and the other showing Queen Elizabeth and her courtiers. The Hall has a splendid wooden ceiling ..

This charming half-timbered almshouse, forming a courtyard with Bablake Old School , looks out onto the 14C St John's Church. The oldest part is the east building (c 1500), the work of Thomas Bond.

The West Midlands were once the heart of the British motorcycle industry. Hundreds of models are on show in this complex which is half museum, half conference centre. Fans of two-wheelers will appreciate the development of the motorbike in the UK fro..