Bay 18 - St Thomas Becket

Index to panels:
(Click captions below to open detailed view in this window or click the relevant panel on the diagrams to the left to open in a new window).

(Panels 1-4 do not belong in this window and because they were obscured by the chapel gates, I didn't photograph them)

05 - Signature panel (Tanner treating hides)
06 - Signature panel (Tanner selling hides)
07 - Signature panel (Tanner scraping a hide)

08 - Investiture of St Thomas as Archbishop of Canterbury

09 - Thomas disputing with King Henry II at the Council of Northampton
10 - Thomas bids farewell to his supporters and embarks for France
11 - Thomas meets Pope Alexander III to discussing his dispute with the King
12 + 13 - Thomas takes his leave of his friends at Pontigny Abbey ?

14 - Thomas meeting with the French King, Louis VII
15 - Thomas meets with the Pope and the French King to plan his return to England

16 - Thomas returns to England
17 - King Henry asking the Archbishop of York to crown his son ?
18 - The King refusing to meet Thomas ?

19 - The knights threaten Thomas, who refuses to back down

20 - Thomas entering the Cathedral
21 - The three knights preparing to murder Thomas
22+23 - The murder of St Thomas in the Cathedral

24+25 - St Thomas on his tomb, with a censing angel, a cripple and a blind man