Our project aims to recover some of this 1600 years of history through archival and scholarly research, as well as building on the collective memory of a thousand years of parishioners and visitors to St Pancras. We hope that some of you reading this blog might have your own memories or family history to contribute, and we welcome stories, photos and whatever else you might have to share.
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Although nothing can replace a stroll through our historic churchyard, we thought we would share with you some of the highlights of the tour. You can drop by St Pancras any weekday, and one of our friendly tour guides will...
Scroll through 1000 years of St Pancras Old Church history with our Tiki-Toki Timeline! Have all the events, people and changes to the church laid out for you, or hit the ‘3d’ in the bottom left-hand corner and zoom forward...
Samuel Cooper (1609-1672) was the most famous miniature painter of his age. He was born in London in1609. He learned miniature painting from his uncle, John Hoskins, who lived and worked in Bedford Square and was himself an eminent miniaturist. ...
It has been all over the news. A Pacific-ocean walrus was found along with 3 human remains from 1822 in the St Pancras Old Church churchyard during the railways excavations in 2003. No one knows how it got there or why. Beatles...
1. Importance of People buried here Sir John Soane and John Flaxman were artists of European stature. In literature terms, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, John William Polidori are all key figures in their day. And there are many other stories to...
Howard Martin Otho Travers was born in 1886 at Margate in Kent. He studied architecture at the Royal College of Art, then part of the V&A. His first significant employment was as an assistant to the brilliant late Victorian architect...