It 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. 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. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detail from portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Washington Allston (1814). I don’t think we would open up a view of the coffins, but we could place a suitable inscription on the wall.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest St Michael’s church in Highgate. They lay not where most thought, in the far corner of the crypt, but almost directly below the inscription “Beneath this stone lies the body of Samuel Taylor Coleridge” on the prominent memorial slab in the nave.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2018 09:56 UTC