St Pancras Old Church 1752
St Pancras Old Church 1815
St Pancras Old Church 1827, with the Fleet River
St Pancras Old Church 1782
The church was restored in c.1850, and after. I visited late in a winter afternoon and it felt lonely, separated from city life; the atmosphere was curiously quiet, almost countryside.
The churchyard includes the burial ground for St Giles in the Fields. It provided a burial ground for Roman Catholics from around London, as well people such as Sir John Soane and his wife (photograph follows, apparently model for red telephone boxes!), Johan Christian Bach, John Flaxman, and others. The graveyard was dug up during the construction of St Pancras railway station, with skeletons reburied in mass graves. One of the people overseeing this work was Thomas Hardy.
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Candy Blackham
Yes, that is exactly how I experienced the church and surrounds. There are other places in the City which are similarly atmospheric, like St Dunstans in the East, and St Olave.