sentences:  Coventry Cathedral was left as a ruin, and is today still the principal reminder of the bombing.A new cathedral was constructed alongside the ruin in the 1950s, designed by the architect Basil Spence.Spence (later knighted for this work) insisted that instead of re-building the old cathedral it should be kept in ruins as a garden of remembrance and that the new cathedral should be built alongside, the two buildings together effectively forming one church.