St Giles' Church, Stoke Poges

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Thomas Gray is buried in St. Giles’s Churchyard, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England

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He died at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and requested to be buried next to his mother. His tomb is below the east window of the Hastings Chapel. The tablet on the wall of the church records that his mother is buried in the vault below.

Gray is chiefly remembered for his great poem : Elegy in a Country Churchyard - which is believed to have been set in St. Giles. It is thought that Gray commenced writing this poem in 1742 but didn’t complete it until 1750 when he sent it to Horace Walpole in a letter.

Verses from the Elegy are inscribed on his monument which was erected in 1799 and stands to the east of the church.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard