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Hardy Tree

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by novelist Thomas Hardy. The tree had long been weakened by a fungal infection and unfortunately in dec'22 has fallen.

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Address: Pancras Rd
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St. Pancras Old Church and cemetery
Hidden away behind St. Pancras railway station is what is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England. There has been a church on the site since at least around the year 314. The current church is mostly a 19th-century structure, but it contains some traces of an older Norman structure. Surrounding the church is a cemetery, today transformed into a public park that contains a memorial to philosopher and "mother of feminism" Mary Wollstonecraft, who was originally buried there before her remains were moved to Bournemouth. This is where her daughter Mary, the author of Frankenstein, first declared her love for her future husband, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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St Pancras Old Church
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Mary Wollstencraft Godwin
Mary Wollstencraft Godwin (1759 – 1797) memorial. Writer, philosopher and advocate of women's rights; mother of Mary Shelley nee Godwin. Her remains were moved in 1851 by grandson Percy Florence Shelley to his family tomb, St Peter's Church, Bournemouth.
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Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial
The Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial is a structure built in the churchyard of Old St Pancras, London, in 1877–79, at the behest of Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The former churchyard included the burial ground for St Giles-in-the-Fields, where many Catholics and French émigrés were buried. The graveyard closed to burials in 1850, but some graves were disturbed by a cutting of the Midland Railway in 1865 as part of the works to construct its terminus at St Pancras railway station.
Built 1879