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A look around the Euston Road area of London (London Borough of Camden - between St Pancras International and Euston stations).

Saint Pancras Parish Church

Grade I listed building

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-478428-church-of-st-pancras-greater-london-auth#.WEP52Fwaz-E" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Church of St Pancras, Camden</a>

   CAMDEN

   TQ2982NE UPPER WOBURN PLACE
   798-1/89/1657 (East side)
   10/06/54 Church of St Pancras

   GV I

   Church. 1819-22. By H and HW Inwood, restored 1951-3. Portland
   stone with stone coloured terracotta detailing. Single storey,
   rectangular plan; nave of 6 bays plus vestibule with tower over
   and portico at west end; east end with apsidal sanctuary and
   rectangular tribunes to north and south. Greek Revival style,
   general plan and form influenced by St Martin-in-the-Fields,
   but rich detailing influenced by, and in some cases copied from,
   casts of the Erechtheum, Athens.
   EXTERIOR: west end, hexastyle Ionic portico approached by 2
   steps. 3 trapezoid architraved doorways with heavy, panelled
   wooden doors. All heavily enriched. 4-stage tower over
   vestibule, a free adaptation of the Tower of the Winds, with
   octagonal ashlar drum, columns supporting an octagonal
   entablature, repeated above in diminished scale and surmounted
   by an octagonal drum with cornice and pointed finial with a
   cross.
   North and south facades with trapezoid, architraved, recessed
   windows, smaller similar windows below, Ionic half columns
   marking the vestibule and palmette brattishing above the
   cornice. Projecting near the east end, rectangular tribunes
   facing north and south; each with Ionic portico supported by 4
   caryatids copied from the Erechtheum by John Rossi (formerly a
   modeller at Coade's Manufactury) built up in terracotta pieces
   around cast-iron columns; behind the caryatids, a sarcophagus.
   2 leaf doors with roundels in the high podium. Apsidal east
   end with tetrastyle in antis Ionic half columns supporting an
   entablature and trapezoid, architraved, recessed windows. One
   similar window each side of the apse, to the nave, and one
   similar but smaller window to each east facade of the
   tribunes.
   INTERIOR: entrance via the west end through an octagonal
   vestibule corresponding with the tower above and ceiled over a
   ring of dwarf Doric columns standing in a frieze. Nave has
   flat, coffered ceiling with galleries supported on lotus
   columns around 3 sides. Apse with 6 verd-antique scagliola
   Ionic columns on marble podium in the curve of the apse. Some
   early memorial tablets in Grecian style. Clerk's vestry in the
   north tribune with Ionic columns supporting an oval ceiling.
   Fine mahogany pulpit carried on 4 Ionic columns. High altar,
   1914 by Adams & Holden. Stained glass by Clayton and Bell.
   HISTORICAL NOTE: the earliest Greek Revival church in London,
   built as part of the southern expansion of St Pancras and
   superseding the parish church, St Pancras Old Church, Pancras
   Road (qv).
   (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St
   Pancras IV: London: -1952: 1-9).

   Listing NGR: TQ2981882578

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Source: English Heritage