Court Building, St Pancras Coroner's Court

St. Pancras Coroners Court, Camley Street, London, N1C 4PP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1439659
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-2003
List Entry Name:: Court Building, St Pancras Coroner's Court
Statutory Address:: St. Pancras Coroners Court, Camley Street, London, N1C 4PP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1439659
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-2003
List Entry Name:: Court Building, St Pancras Coroner's Court
Statutory Address 1:: St. Pancras Coroners Court, Camley Street, London, N1C 4PP

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: St. Pancras Coroners Court, Camley Street, London, N1C 4PP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ2978983552

Summary

Purpose-built coroner's court of 1886-8 by Frederick Eggar.

Reasons for Designation

Coroner's Court of 1886-8 by Frederick Eggar for St Pancras Vestry, beautifully detailed and with a well preserved interior.

History

Coroner's court. Dated 1886 on foundation stone and in gable, and opened in 1888. Designed by Mr Eggar of London. In 1885 the Vestry of St Pancras decided to build a special building for meetings of its coroner's court, after complaints were made by the Coroner that existing rented premises were unhygienic for the delicate work of post-mortems.

Details

Red brick with stone dressings, tile roofs with crestings, elaborate stacks. Rectangular building with apsed end. Inside, a single main court room, with ancillary offices to west and east. Main elevation a tripartite composition reflecting these elements, denoted by breaks in the roofline, stacks and buttresses. Further buttresses flank central projecting window which has the quality of a transept. This has three-light window with c.1400 style tracery. To either side are two-light windows with pointed mouldings under square heads. Triangular gables with finials in high roof. Interior has open timber lined roof behind wrought-iron trusses and with ashlaring. Boarded doors and bench seating form a well-preserved ensemble.

The building has a Gothic character appropriate to its historic location adjoining St Pancras Burial Ground.

Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the C20 addition to the north east, through which the court is entered, is not of special architectural or historic interest.

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Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.