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Railways, stations and trains. The ornate eastern end of St Pancras station, or more precisely the former Midland Grand Hotel (now St Pancras Renaissance Hotel) in London, showing the substantial clock face.
Sir Gilbert Scott won the competition to design the hotel that the Midland Railway decided was required and created the ornate red brick Gothic building. Opened fully in April 1876, the hotel had many then innovative features, such as fireproof floors and hydraulic lifts, but the lack of bathrooms amongst other factors ended its hotel days in 1935.
From 1935 to 1980 it served as railway offices, this part of its life then coming to a close as it failed the then fire safety standards, perhaps ironic since fire safety features had made the hotel stand out in its early days.
Earlier than that, in the mid 1960s, closure of the station was being considered, as was demolition of the whole site, but Grade 1 Listing in 1967 concentrated minds on how it would be maintained for a long term future.
The hotel reopened as the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in 2011. By then the station was St Pancras International, Eurostar services having transferred here from London Waterloo in November 2007.
The iconic St Pancras station roof, 2nd March 2023. St Pancras was constructed by the Midland Railway to the design of William Henry Barlow with a single-span iron roof. This was the largest single-span structure in the world at the time of its completion. It was constructed using a wrought iron framework of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed in a vertical rectangular grid pattern with decorative timber cladding around the edge and wrought iron finials around the outer edge. It is 689 feet long, 240 feet wide, and 100 feet high at the apex above the tracks and at the time of opening, it was the world's largest unsupported station roof. It was refurbished during the 2006/07 station rebuild when this part of the station became the terminus for the Eurostar services to Europe via the Channel Tunnel.
Cold December Sun.....Old and New
Midland Road runs from North to South between the 1865 St Pancras Station on the left and the recently built British Library on the right.
Eurostar passes Rainham with power car 3001 hauling 9L36 1404 London St.Pancras to Bruxelles Midi with 3002 on the rear on 20/04/2016.
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Romantic Staircase St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel (II) - London, UK
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There are several works of art on public display at St Pancras. A 9-metre (29.5 ft) high 20-tonne (19.7-long-ton; 22.0-short-ton) bronze statue titled The Meeting Place stands at the south end of the upper level beneath the station clock. It was designed by the British artist Paul Day to evoke the romance of travel through the depiction of a couple locked in an amorous embrace. Controversy was caused by Day's 2008 addition of a bronze relief frieze around the plinth, depicting a commuter falling into the path of an Underground train driven by the Grim Reaper. Day revised the frieze before the final version was installed.
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Adjoining St Pancras international railway station, this upscale hotel in an ornate Gothic Revival-style building is 1 mile from the British Museum and 1.7 miles from the National Portrait Gallery.
Sir John Betjeman called this Gothic treasure “too beautiful and too romantic to survive” in a world of tower blocks and concrete. Its survival against the odds will cause wonder; the building itself will take your breath away.
After years of devoted restoration, the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is being hailed as London’s most romantic building. Its glorious Gothic Revival metalwork, gold leaf ceilings, hand-stencilled wall designs and a jaw-dropping grand staircase are as dazzling as the day Queen Victoria opened the hotel in 1873.
The iconic St Pancras station roof, 11th February 2008. The station was constructed by the Midland Railway to the design of William Henry Barlow and constructed with a single-span iron roof. The single-span overall roof was the largest such structure in the world at the time of its completion. It was constructed using a wrought iron framework of lattice design, with glass covering the middle half and timber (inside)/slate (outside) covering the outer quarters. The two end screens were glazed in a vertical rectangular grid pattern with decorative timber cladding around the edge and wrought iron finials around the outer edge. It is 689 feet long, 240 feet wide, and 100 feet high at the apex above the tracks and at the time of opening, it was the world's largest unsupported station roof. It was refurbished during 2006/07.
The St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel London and entrance to the St Pancras International Train Station is a quite impressive site. St. Pancras, since opening in 1868, features Victorian Gothic-revival architecture.
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Eglwys (Newydd) Sant Pancras, Llundain, 1819-22, gan William a Henry William Inwood.
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Iliz (Nevez) Sant Pankras, Londrez, 1819-22, gant William ha Henry William Inwood.
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St Pancras Parish (New) Church, London, 1819-22, by William and Henry William Inwood.
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"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.
The Inwoods drew on two ancient Greek monuments, the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds, both in Athens, for their inspiration."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_New_Church