Both Southey and Coleridge were married in St Mary Redcliffe. Coleridge to Sarah Fricker on the 4th October 1795, and Southey to Edith Fricker on the 17th of November 1795. Coleridge was much affected by the throught of being married in the church of Chatterton's youth. He wrote to Tom Poole: 'The thought gave me a tinge of melancholy to the solemn Joy, which I felt - united to the woman, whom I love best of all created Beings.'