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St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church on Pancras Road, Somers Town, in the London Borough of Camden. Somers Town is an area of the ancient parish and later Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras .
The St Pancras Old Church, the original parish church was small ancient building to the north of New Road. This had become neglected following a growth in population in the north of the parish, and by the early 19th century services were only held there once a month, worship at other times taking place in a chapel in Kentish Town .
The Parish of Old St Pancras (previously known as the St Pancras Team Ministry) was an ecclesiastical parish in the Church of England. [1] It was formed on 1 June 2003 and consisted of four churches in north London – St Michael's Church, Camden Town; St Mary's Church, Somers Town; St Pancras Old Church; and St Paul's Church, Camden Square.
St Pancras Old Church The church, dedicated to the Roman martyr Saint Pancras , gave its name to the St Pancras district, which originated as the parish served by the church. The church is reputed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England; however, as is so often with old church sites, it is hard to find documentary or ...
Shrine to St Pancras, made in northern Germany, c. 1300 Devotion to Pancras existed from the fifth century onwards, for the basilica of Saint Pancras was built by Pope Symmachus (498–514), on the place where the body of the young martyr had been buried; his earliest passio seems to have been written during this time. [4]
St Pancras New Church, a 19th-century church built when the above fell into disrepair St Pancras and Islington Cemetery , in East Finchley, opened when the churchyard became full St Pancras Hospital , occupying the former workhouse and surrounding the old churchyard
St Pancras Old Church, a 4th-century church in St Pancras, London; St Pancras New Church, a 19th-century church built nearby when the above fell into disrepair; St Pancras, Soper Lane, in the City of London, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666
It was designed by Henry William Inwood as a chapel of ease for St Pancras Old Church (which resumed being a parish in its own right in 1852) and built between 1824 and 1827 by I. T. Seabrook. [1] A Parliamentary grant paid for the construction, though local taxation funded the purchases of the chapel's interior decoration and the site itself.