 This eventually led to the foundation of the Temenos Academy, a teaching organisation based in London.Sherrard died in London on 30 May 1995 at the age of 72 and was buried near the Orthodox chapel he had had built on his property.Sherrard's first book was "The Marble Threshing Floor" (1956), an "introduction to modern Greek poetry for English-speaking readers, which, together with his translations, brought the poetry of Cavafy and Seferis, together with its cultural background, to the attention of the literary world."