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St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London NW1

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Details

Accessibility

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/15607/facilities/

Ramped entrance

Brief description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_New_Church

"St Pancras Church is a Greek Revival church in St Pancras, London, built in 1819–22 to the designs of William and Henry William Inwood. The church is in a Greek revival style, using the Ionic order. It is built from brick, faced with Portland stone, except for the portico and the tower above the roof, which are entirely of stone. All the external decoration, including the capitals of the columns is of terracotta.[4]

The Inwoods drew on two ancient Greek monuments, the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds, both in Athens, for their inspiration. The doorways are closely modelled on those of the Erechtheum, as is the entablature, and much of the other ornamentation.[4] Henry William Inwood was in Athens at the time that the plans for St Pancras were accepted,[5] and brought plaster casts of details of the Erechtheum, and some excavated fragments, back to England.[4]

The west end follows the basic arrangement of portico, vestibules and tower established by James Gibbs at St Martin-in-the-Fields.[7] The octagonal domed ceiling of the vestibule is in imitation of the Tower of the Winds, and the tower above uses details from the same structure. At the east end is an apse, flanked by the church's most original features: two tribunes designed in imitation of the Erechtheum, with entablatures supported by caryatids. Unlike those on the Erechtheum, each caryatid holds a symbolic extinguished torch or an empty jug, appropriate for their positions above the entrances to the burial vault. There is a stone sarcophagus behind the figures in each tribune, and the cornices are studded with lion's heads.[4] The caryatids are made of terracotta, constructed in sections around cast-iron columns, and were modelled by John Charles Felix Rossi, who provided all the terracotta on the building. The upper levels of the tribunes were designed as vestries.[5]

Access to the church is through three doorways ranged under the portico. There are no side doors.[4] Inside, the church has a flat ceiling with an uninterrupted span of 60 feet (18 m), and galleries supported on cast-iron columns. The interior of the apse is in the form of one half of a circular temple, with six columns, painted to imitate marble, raised on a plinth.[5]

The crypt, which extends the whole length of the church, was designed to contain 2,000 coffins,[4] but fewer than five hundred interments had taken place by 1854, when the practice was ended in all London churches. It served as an air-raid shelter in both world wars and is now used as an art gallery.[8]"

Also see https://stpancraschurch.org/the-building/history/

Address

Euston Road, NW1 2BA

Email

office@stpancraschurch.org

and https://stpancraschurch.org/contact/

Phone

020 7388 1461

Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_New_Church

https://stpancraschurch.org/

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/15607/

Directions

On Euston Road (Opposite Euston Station)

Opening Times

Always check with the venue directly for up-to-date information including opening times and admission charges as they may be subject to change

2022: "The church will be open for private prayer Monday - Saturday: 11am - 2pm; Sunday: 8am - 2pm."

Transport

Opposite Euston Station

Amenities

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/15607/facilities/

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