In which church is Charles Dickens buried?

Charles Dickens is buried in Westminster Abbey, specifically in Poets’ Corner. He died at Gad’s Hill Place in Kent on 9 June 1870, and his burial in the Abbey made him one of Britain’s most honoured literary figures.

Dickens had expressed a preference for a quiet burial near his home, but public feeling after his death was immense. Dean Arthur Stanley arranged for him to be buried in the Abbey, where the funeral took place on 14 June 1870. The grave is near other major writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

The location is sometimes confused with St Paul’s Cathedral because both are major London churches associated with national ceremonies and famous Britons. Southwark Cathedral is also linked to Dickens: it stands near places associated with his childhood and the London world he wrote about, but it is not his burial place.

Westminster Abbey is formally a collegiate church rather than a cathedral. Its Poets’ Corner contains both actual graves and memorials, so being remembered there does not always mean someone is physically buried in the Abbey.