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St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. [1] It has 749 pupils enrolled. [ 2 ]
Thomas Becket (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t /), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London [1] and later Thomas à Becket [note 1] (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170.
The closure of St Thomas Becket Catholic School was approved on 29 June 2005. From September 2006 onwards, the school became known as "the St Thomas Becket Wing of St Edmund of Canterbury Secondary School". Pupils in years 9, 10 and 11 continued their education on the St Thomas Becket site until the end of year 11.
Originally opened in the 1860s, was known between 1877 and 1929. Reopened as St Mary's in 1929 on current site. [5] Thomas A Becket Infant School: Tarring: 4–7: 600: A school in Tarring dates back as far as 1732.
The school was founded as Thomas Becket Roman Catholic Upper School; under construction through 1974 [2] and 1975, [3] it had opened by March 1976. [4] It was named after Thomas Becket , 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury .
The hospital is situated on the King's-bridge, next to the Franciscan Gardens Greyfriars, near the Westgate, in Canterbury.It was founded after the brutal murder of Saint Thomas Becket in 1170, possibly as early as 1176, when Canterbury Cathedral became a site of pilgrimage; the hospital provided accommodation for poor pilgrims.
William of Canterbury (floruit 1170–1177) was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in December 1170. He was present at the murder of the archbishop and admitted in his writings that he ran from the murder scene.
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 ...