 On 5 December 1945 Lang was due to speak in a Lords debate on conditions in Central Europe . On his way to Kew Gardens station to catch the London train , he collapsed and was taken to hospital , but was found to be dead on arrival . A post @-@ mortem attributed the death to heart failure . In paying tribute the following day , Lord Addison said that Lang was " not only a great cleric but a great man ... we have lost in him a Father in God . " His body was cremated and the ashes taken to the Chapel of St Stephen Martyr , a side chapel at Canterbury Cathedral , where they were buried under the altar table . The chapel was subsequently refurbished in 1950 , the work dedicated to Lang 's memory . 
