2-913-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Consecration of the St. Pancras and Islington Extra-Mural Cemetery, Finchley-Road, on Tuesday - Procession to the Episcopal Chapel, 1854. 'The grounds consist of eighty eight acres, tastefully laid out...In the division of the ground for the purposes of interment, St. Pancras possesses fifty acres, and St. Mary, Islington, thirty acres...The only division distinguishing the boundary of the ground belonging to the two parishes is by iron posts and chains; giving the impression that the whole of the ground is one large cemetery...The Episcopal chapel stands upon a considerable elevation: it is of Kentish rag and Bath stone; and is of the Gothic and Early Decorated character, cruciform, and finished with a tower and spire, about 100 feet in. height: the spire is boldly sculptured, by Farmer, of Lambeth....The architects of the whole are Messrs. Barnett and Birch, of Gray's-inn; the contractor, Mr. Dent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.