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Thomas Becket in Chartres
Thomas Becket is the main focus of the Tanner's Window in Chartres Cathedral. This English Saint gained proemence in a French Cathedral because his good friend and adviser, John of Salisbury, became Bishop of Chartres. John had brought relics of St. Thomas Becket to Chartres. In addition William of White Hands Bishop of Sens in addition it being John of Salisbury's predecessor was among the strong supporters of Thomas Becket.

Tanners windows
The Tanner's Guild sponsored the window of St. Thomas Becket (Bay 18). It was common practice for the donors of a window to be recognized in the window. This shows the importance of the guild to the community. The predominant color, like most of the windows in the cathedral is blue. The clothing of the tanners is shown as a long sleeved ankle length robe. Historically this is not accurate to how a tanner would actually dress during the messy tanning process, but instead shows the aspirations and success of tanners in general as well as reinforcing the importance of tanners to the community.

05 - Signature panel (Tanner treating hides) Depicted is a tanner wearing a long robe, working a green vat with a hide in it, another hide is hanging behind the tanner.

06 - Signature panel (Tanner selling hides) Laid out before the tanner, wearing a long brown robe, is a stack of hides on a table. Two figures are in front of the tanner inspecting and buying the hides.

07 - Signature panel (Tanner scraping a hide) This panel is a companion to panel 05. It shows the process of scraping the hide of fur and left over flesh after the soaking process in panel 05.

panel 8
Panel 08 - Investiture of St Thomas as Archbishop of Canterbury On the right of the panel is a figure holding a book and beside him is another figure holding a crosier While St. Thomas has his head bowed, wearing a miter, and his hands folded. On the right of the panel is a bishop with hand extended, towards St. Thomas, and crosier resting on the shoulder.