IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 P90/PAN1
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT PANCRAS PARISH CHURCH: EUSTON ROAD, CAMDEN
Date(s): 1660-1950
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 18.71 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Parish of St Pancras, Euston Road | Church of England x St Pancras New Church
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Saint Pancras was a parish before the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is said to occupy the site of a Roman Camp, the old church was erected around 1180. It was enlarged and almost rebuilt in 1848 and again restored in 1888. The burial ground has been a place of Christian burial for over 700 years, being at times favoured by Roman Catholics and in particular French exiles, a factor said to be attributable to the church's dedication to the Roman martyr Pancratius.
In 1822 a new parish church was completed in Euston Road, reducing the Old Church to the status of a parish chapel. In 1863 the latter regained its status as the principal church of a new parish. The two parishes are referred to separately as Saint Pancras, Pancras Road (ie the Old Church, but a new parish) and Saint Pancras, Euston Road (ie the new church completed in 1822, but the old parish). Records dated 1660-1822 therefore relate to Saint Pancras Old Church when it was the main parish church of the ancient parish of Saint Pancras. Records of Saint Pancras Old Church dated 1863 onwards refer to the new, smaller and separate parish assigned to this church after that date. See also P90/PAN1.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Saint Pancras parish church (Saint Pancras New Church), Euston Road, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; church services registers; and records relating to the civil functions of the parish including papers relating to the workhouse; settlement examinations; orders of removal from the parish; and apprenticeship indentures.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been sorted into categories which reflect divisions between the different functions and operations of the parish and its administration. Order within these categories reflects chronology.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were deposited by the incumbent in 1961 and 1989.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2010.