Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poet’s Remains Rediscovered in a Wine Cellar
13th April 2018
According to a report in the Guardian, Coleridge’s lead coffin, along with those of his wife Sara, his daughter, his son-in-law and his grandson, were discovered in the crypt of St Michael’s church in Highgate – which was built on the site of a demolished mansion.
Literary pilgrims have travelled to the church for years to pay their respects at a memorial plaque to Coleridge in the church, unaware that his remains were concealed just below the memorial slab inscribed with an epitaph he wrote himself.