The Transformation of St Pancras Station – a lecture by Nigel Lowey

When:
12/11/2018 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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Where:
Highgate School
Mills Centre
Bishopswood Road
London N6 4PP
Cost:
£4
Contact:
David Smith

St Pancras was a 14-year-old Christian boy who was martyred in Rome in AD 304 by the Emperor Diocletian – but in Britain he is better known as a railway station. The mark the 150th anniversary of the terminus on Euston Road this talk will describe how the fantastic mid-Victorian Gothic railway cathedral came to be built, and how the long-neglected building underwent a breath-taking transformation.