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Pancrace and Pancridge was the name of St Pancras NW1 during the Middle Ages. St Pancras NW1 settlement developed around the St Pancras Old Church. It is believed that the church was built in the 4th century or even earlier. It is dedicated and it bears the name of a 14-year old Roman boy, who refused to renounce his Christian faith and was executed by the Emperor Diocleation in 4th century AD. It is believed that the church is one of the oldest in England. Not to be confounded with the Old Church, St Pancras New Church was built in the early 1800s.
The Beatles took pictures in the churchyard to promote their album White Album. The event is marked by a plaque on a memorial bench. Lene Lovich’s Bird Song video was filmed on the church grounds. The church hosted concerts by Sam Smith and Claudia Brucken.
Poet W.B. Yeats, actor William Hartnell, historian Monica Charlot, and actor Andrew Lincoln are some of the most notable people that had ties with the area. St Pancras Hospital was opened in 1848. Novelist Kingsley Amis died in this hospital in 1995.
St Pancras NW1 railway station is the end destination for the Eurostar train that connects UK, Netherlands, Belgium, and France through the Channel Tunnel.
The name of St Pancras does not actually have a real place of application other than the railway station itself, upmarket venues in the immediate locality, and the immediate vicinity that borders King’s Cross.
Despite attempts of the British Railways Board tried to restructure that segment of the railway through combining St Pancras station with the neighbouring King’s Cross station in the 1960s, the station marked its 150th anniversary in 2018. This was made possible by the led by John Betjeman against demolishing both existing stations, who saved the station, there was The bronze statue of the chubby guy (John Betjeman himself) memorizes that event standing upstairs on The Grand Terrace of the station.
Can you imagine that three dedicated beer trains transported boozy wares from Burton upon Trent to London daily in the late 19th – early 20th century?
Several beehives owned by Fortnum and Mason have found their home on the roof of St Pancras International in 2013 and, since then, those bees harvest the lovely, soft, caramel coloured honey. Isn’t it strange regarding that St Pancras is an area of central London?
Old St Pancras Church was the original focus of the area and the home of what later has become Camden Town, mainly due to the efforts of Earl Camden, who began development of the surrounding area in the 1790s. The church itself is said to be one of Britain’s oldest sites of Christian worship.
