Where did C.S. Lewis die on 22 November 1963?

C.S. Lewis died at The Kilns on 22 November 1963. The Kilns was his house on the outskirts of Oxford, and he lived there from 1930 until his death.

Lewis shared the home for many years with his brother, Warren Lewis, and later with Joy Davidman and her sons. The house became closely associated with Lewis’s writing life and with the private circle surrounding him. Its name came from lime kilns that had once operated nearby.

Lewis died at home after suffering from heart and kidney problems. His death occurred on the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated and, less than an hour later, that Aldous Huxley died. Because of those major international events, Lewis’s death received comparatively little immediate attention in the press.

He was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford. The burial site is separate from The Kilns, which is the correct location of his death. The Kilns later became a center for Lewis scholarship and hospitality.