Editing Samuel Taylor Coleridge (section)

== Remains ==
[[File:St Michael, South Grove, Highgate - Ledger slab - geograph.org.uk - 2673524.jpg|thumb|Coleridge's grave in [[St Michael's Church, Highgate]], London]]
Coleridge is now buried in [[St Michael's Church, Highgate]], London. He was originally buried at the Old Highgate Chapel, next to the main entrance of [[Highgate School]]. Coleridge could see the red door of the then new St Michael's Church from his last residence across the green, where he lived with a doctor he had hoped might cure him (in a house owned by [[Kate Moss]] until 2022). 

When it was discovered Coleridge's vault had become derelict, the coffins – Coleridge's and those of his wife Sarah, daughter [[Sara Coleridge]], son-in-law [[Henry Nelson Coleridge]], and grandson [[Herbert Coleridge]], were moved to St Michael's Highgate after an international fundraising appeal in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm|title=Samuel Taylor Coleridge Highgate London|last=Cameron|website=Poets' Graves |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/12/samuel-taylor-coleridge-poet-remains-rediscovered-wine-cellar|title=Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remains rediscovered in wine cellar|last=Kennedy|first=Maev|date=12 April 2018|journal=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.3465163_001&seq=75&q1=coleridge The Monumental Inscriptions of Middlesex Vol III - Cansick 1875].</ref>

A recent excavation revealed the coffins were not in the location most believed, the far corner of the crypt, but below a memorial slab in the nave inscribed with: "Beneath this stone lies the body of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecoleridgetrust.com/?page_id=179|title=The Crypt|website=The Coleridge Trust|accessdate=21 July 2024}}</ref> St Michael's plans to restore the crypt and allow public access.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/21323373.samuel-taylor-coleridges-burial-vault-highgate-will-open-public-first-time/|title=Samuel Taylor Coleridge's burial vault in Highgate will open to public for first time|journal=Ham & High|first=Nathalie|last=Raffray|date=9 June 2022|accessdate=8 June 2024}}</ref>