St Pancras, Euston
St Pancras, Euston
St Pancras New Church is a Grade I Greek Revival parish church on Euston Road and Upper Woburn Place, in the Diocese of London.
- Location
- Euston, Greater London
- Country
- England
- County
- Greater London
- City / town
- Euston
- Address
- Euston Road, Euston, Greater London, NW1 2BA
- Postcode
- NW1 2BA
- Built
- 1819–22; restored 1951–53
- Consecrated
- 1822
- Architect
- William Inwood and Henry William Inwood
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Pancras
- Diocese
- London
- Parish
- St Pancras
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Greek Revival
- Materials
- Portland stone with stone-coloured terracotta detailing
- Opening hours
- Open Monday to Thursday 8am to 6pm. Sunday 7.30am to 11.30am and 5.30pm to 7pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
- Website
- http://stpancraschurch.org/
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1819–22 by H. and H. W. Inwood, restored in 1951–53, of Portland stone with stone-coloured terracotta detailing. The plan is a six-bay nave plus a western vestibule with tower and portico, an apsidal sanctuary, and rectangular tribunes to north and south. The general form follows St Martin-in-the-Fields; the rich detailing copies casts of the Erechtheum in Athens. The west front has a hexastyle Ionic portico. The four-stage tower is a free adaptation of the Tower of the Winds.
Near the east end, north and south tribunes have Ionic porticoes supported by four terracotta caryatids copied from the Erechtheum by John Rossi and built around cast-iron columns. The Duke of York laid the first stone on 1 July 1819; the church was dedicated in 1822. It was built to serve the newly developed southern part of the ancient parish, under the St Pancras Parish Church and Parochial Chapel Act 1816.