St Pancras New Church, on the Euston Road in the north of Bloomsbury, was built 1819-1822 to replace St Pancras Old Church as the main church of the parish of St Pancras. The old church was deemed to be no longer suitable for the rapidly expanding city. The architect William Inwood won a competition to design what became the most expensive church to be built in London since St Paul's Cathedral was rebuilt. 

The church seats 2,500 people, and was built in the 'Greek Revival' style. It has been renovated and expanded (most recently in 1970 when the north chapel was added) but still retains its 19th-century feel. It functions as a working parish church today but also organises exhibitions and concerts. 
The church it replaced, St Pancras Old Church, is also well worth a visit. It's about a kilometre away on Pancras Road, and is thought to be one of the oldest sites of known Christian worship in England. A church was certainly on the site pre-Norman Conquest and there may even have been one there as early as 314 AD. The churchyard contains a memorial to various writers, including Mary Wollstonecraft. It was at her burial that her daughter Mary planned to elope with Percy Shelley.

Saint Pancras New Church

Euston Road, NW1 2BA London

Opening Times

Monday-Thursday, 8.00-18.00. Sunday service at 8.00.