Talk:St Pancras Old Church

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Location

But where exactly is this church? What road is it on, what area of london etc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.109.180.25 (talk) 00:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article now seems to answer this fully. BrainyBabe (talk) 20:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resource to be added, perhaps?

This book (at Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=b8KfAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s) has a listing of the epitaphs from the site, done at the time the RR project was threatening the yard. I don't know how to add it to the resources, but if someone does, it probably should be included. (Title: A collection of curious and interesting epitaphs: copied from the monuments of distinguished and noted characters in the ancient church and burial grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex, Volume 1 (Google eBook). By Frederick Teague Cansick, pub. J.R. Smith, 1869.)96.237.240.126 (talk) 11:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England???

"It is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England..."

Yes, I suppose some people actually believe this - at least the church claims it on its information panels and leaflets: "site of prayer and meditation since 314 AD" and "there has been a church on the site where you are standing since 314 AD".

However, "it is believed..." implies that there is a consensus of belief. Even "it is widely believed..." would be better, though I'd rather go for "some believe it...".

It's total nonsense, of course. In fact the date of 314 AD was first proposed (dare one say, invented?) by local historian Charles E Lee in a book written in 1955. Would anyone object if I add a new section "Legendary origins" - not so much to debunk the legend, as to show how it developed? (Earlier 20th-century authors were happy to claim an early 7th-century date; in the 19th-century it was "8th- or 9th-century".) John O'London (talk) 07:44, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done! John O'London (talk) 16:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Extent of the parish to Highgate

It says in the article, Originally the parish of St Pancras stretched from close to Oxford Street almost to Highgate. As there are parish boundary markers for the parish of St Pancras from 1791 still clearly visible right in the middle of the village, on the wall of the The Gatehouse pub, for example, it would appear that the parish went all the way to Highgate. One can be seen here in this Google photo; there is another on the external wall of the first house in The Grove off Hampstead Lane). Interestingly, the parish is identified in an acrostic: a single “S” (for “Saint”) over “P x P” for “Pan-cross (thus “Pancras”) Parish”. Jock123 (talk) 16:15, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]