Where in Canterbury cathedral is thomas a becket buried?

Answer 1

The Shrine of St Thomas Becket, containing his bones in a stone casket, was destroyed by commissioners acting for King Heny VIII in 1538. All English shrines, monasteries and other Catholic centres of worship were destroyed at the same time.

It is not known what happened to the bones taken from St Thomas' shrine. They may have been taken to the Tower of London and buried there (some other Saints' relics apparently were); they may have been burned; they may have been re-buried by the commissioners outside in the monk's cemetery (it no longer exists); they may have been secretly re-buried somewhere inside or outside the cathedral by the monks.

Anyone providing genuine evidence for precisely what happened to those bones in 1538 is in line to become a very famous and wealthy person; many people have investigated the facts and nobody can offer any evidence.

There is a rumour that a small group of people keep the secret of the burial place of the bones of St Thomas, but nobody knows who those people are. There are many unmarked graves within the cathedral, but permission to open any of them is unlikely ever to be granted.