Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket

This study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the screens provided monastic privacy and controlled pilgrimage to the Altar of the Sword''s Point in the Matrydom, the site of Archbishop Thomas Becket''s murder...