Exact location of the poet’s coffin had been forgotten until recent excavation uncovered the vaultIt probably wouldn’t have surprised his long-suffering friends,but the remains of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been rediscovered in a wine cellar. Literary pilgrims have long paid their respects at the memorial plaques to Coleridge in the church above, unaware his lead coffin was lying behind a brick wall closing one finish of the 17th-century cellar. The space was incorporated into the crypt of St Michael’s when the church was built in 1831 near the top of Highgate Hill in north London.
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Source: guardian.co.uk