Photograph of Poet's Corner inside Westminster Abbey, London with a view looking towards busts and memorials. A wooden bench stands in the left of the foreground.

Westminster Abbey was consecrated in 1065 and was dedicated to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen, following a vision that a fisherman by the name of Aldrich had on the Thames near to where the abbey was subsequently built. Poet's Corner occupies the south transept of the abbey.