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St Thomas Becket's consecration, death and burial, at wall paintings in Santa Maria de Terrassa (Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain), romanesque frescoes, c. 1180 [25] Former site of Thomas Becket's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral. In Scotland, King William the Lion ordered the building of Arbroath Abbey in 1178. On completion in 1197 the new foundation ...
The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral is the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, named after the severed crown of Thomas Becket (St. Thomas the Martyr), whose shrine it was built to contain. The tomb of Cardinal Pole in the cathedral. Becket was murdered in the north transept of the cathedral on 29 December 1170. Four years later a disastrous fire ...
Plan of Trinity Chapel. In 1220, Becket's remains were translated from his first tomb to the finished chapel. As a result of this event, the chapel became a major pilgrimage site, inspiring Geoffrey Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales in 1387 and with routes (e.g. from Southwark (Chaucer's route) and the Pilgrim's Way to/from Winchester) converging on the cathedral.
Canterbury Cathedral is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, ... The shrine to St Thomas Becket was destroyed on the orders of Henry VIII and the relics lost.
St Thomas of Canterbury Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Canterbury, Kent, England.It was built from 1874 to 1875 in the Gothic Revival style.It is situated on the corner of Burgate and Canterbury Lane, west of Lower Bridge Street, opposite the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral in the centre of the city.
Thirteenth-century manuscript illumination depicting Becket's assassination. Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935 (published the same year). The play portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170.
The day after their arrival, they confronted Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. When Becket resisted their attempts to seize him, they slashed at him with their swords, killing him. [13] Although nobody, even at the time, believed that Henry directly ordered that Becket be killed, his words had started a chain of events that was likely to have ...
From Thomas Becket's canonization in 1173, until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538, ... Pilgrims Way, by Canterbury-Cathedral.org