St Thomas à Becket Church

St Thomas a Becket Church is a striking 12th-century church in a peaceful rural location. The church is Grade I-listed and made out of flint and stone. There are also two grave-watchers' huts in the churchyard, which are Grade II-listed.

The patronage of this church—dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury—takes us back in time to the 12th century and geographically to southeastern England. Thomas Becket (born 1118) was Archbishop of Canterbury and, in the dispute between the Church and the Crown (King Henry II), a "martyr of canon law and ecclesiastical freedom," as Pope Alexander III put it on the occasion of his canonization (1173, just three years after Thomas's violent death). His feast day in the calendar of saints is December 29th.
Canterbury Cathedral, where he was murdered in 1170 and which contains his tomb, can be visited virtually in the komoot system at the following link =>> komoot.com/de-de/highlight/231266