It starts with a Limoges enamel casket with Becket being decapitated:-

His parents, Gilbert and Matilda, were merchants in Cheapside. According to John of Salisbury, Becket ‘was tall in stature, handsome in appearance, acute in intellect…’
His consecration as archbishop:-

A remnant of the Romanesque cathedral:-

Becket shows his feelings towards the King and Louis VII:-

There’s a font from a church in rural Sweden showing the rapid spread of his cult following his murder:-

The cult spreads to a reliquary in Norway:-

In alabaster:-


A wonderful, intellectually coherent, narrative exhibition, so rich in objects and a sense of Becket’s tragedy.
Thank you for this post. Sadly, we won’t be able to travel to see it but my partner found the BM’s excellent documentary on YouTube, which gave a pretty thorough virtual tour of it.