Liam Payne’s funeral: All the heartfelt details which paid tribute to the One Direction singer

Liam Payne’s funeral happened yesterday on Wednesday 20th November. The service took place at a country church in Buckinghamshire. Many of his family members and close friends attended, including all the One Direction singers and James Corden.

The funeral service included many heartfelt details which paid tribute to Liam Payne’s personality. Here are all these meaningful details, explained.

Horses drew his coffin

The horse-drawn carriage travelling to the church
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Liam Payne really enjoyed horseriding. He owned a horse called Titanium Z (or Tommy) which competed in showjumping events. He said on his Snapchat story in October that he was looking forward to going horseriding in Argentina. Two white horses drew the white carriage which carried the coffin.

The flower wreaths were really moving

The flower wreaths
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Red flowers spelt out “son” and blue flowers spelt out “daddy”. The wreathes topped the horse-drawn carriage, then were moved into the hearse.

Decorations remembered Liam’s love of bowling

The church in Buckinghamshire
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White roses decorated the church and the hearse. Liam Payne was a fan of ten-pin bowling – his girlfriend Kate Cassidy joked on TikTok that “he drags me to bowling at least four times a week”.

There was a floral display in the shape of a bowling ball and pins in the churchyard.

His family requested people donate to Great Ormond Street Hospital

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The back of the order of service sheet
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The back of the order of service sheets encouraged people to make a donation in Liam Payne’s memory to Great Ormond Street Hospital. The website says, “Your donation today will continue Liam’s legacy by helping to build a brand-new Children’s Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital. This incredible new facility will help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funnier and longer.”

Liam Payne quietly gave lots of money to children’s charities. He participated in Soccer Aid for Unicef, and sold off lots of his old clothes for the charities The Trussell Trust and The Penrose Club in 2021.

He also donated to several ill and injured young people through GoFundMe in 2024, including a 28-year-old American man called Jack with lymphoma, a four-year-old girl called Macy with a tumour on her kidney, and a young American girl who was injured in a school shooting.

The cars had Batman stickers on

for those who you who have doubted me and now turn to hate id like to say one thing… i am batman pic.twitter.com/PmRz7Ul3Jq

— Liam (@LiamPayne) August 25, 2013

According to The Sun, Liam Payne’s friends travelled to the funeral in black cars decorated with Batman stickers. Liam Payne was a huge fan of the superhero. He dressed up as Batman for Jonathan Ross’s Halloween party in 2019.

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