After the Kings Cross visit, I turned to see this Gothic Victorian building named after St. Pancras. St. Pancras is invoked against cramps, false witness, headache, and perjury. He is a patron saint of children. He was beheaded for being a Christian. Hmmm. Anyway, back to the building.
I turn a bit more to get around the kings cross exit. That long line of windows is paralleling the platforms. The pavement is where the people queue up for Eurostar. 
The clock tower
An entrance to the station
The windows are beautiful. 
And that curve as well..
Not very clear what is the function of this decoration. Looks like they might have wanted to have sculptures below this little roof like unit..
I climb the stairs
And the building opens up in front of me. 
Full of bits and bobs
Another entrance into the station, you can see the trains
There are these two shields on top of the entrance
Can you see them on top of the entrance? Hmm, cannot figure out what they represent. 
Another view of the clock tower. 
This reminds me of Dutch architecture
Rows of attic windows
Man, that’s complicated
A steeple like structure at the end
The balconies are extraordinarily well decorated. With carvings below, heraldic shields on the columns, terracotta tiles, carvings of griffins on the supports. you name it. Cleaning them will be a pain. 
The windows have so much stuff, its difficult to figure out what to look at. 
The wing curves around, presumably this is the hotel
The entrance to the hotel
And there is the hotel
People heading into the hotel
The hotel bedrooms
On the side, the annex has some lovely arches
Looking back down the frontage
The imposing entrance to the hotel
Reflections off the window
And the annex
More of the fantastically complex decorations and shields. 
Looking up at the steeple
Lovely arches
The curves are indeed lovely
Couple of rampant lions clutching 2 shields
A peacock!
More shields on the other side. 
And on the front, with an exquisite railing
The top of the Corinthian columns are having these holes. Like they had some attachments there earlier. Or is that to reduce weight? 
And more of the lovely bits and bobs on the annexe. Gargoyles on the top. With the Dutch style of stepped roofs. Lovely, but so so so busy
Another longer view
And the windows
The main road in front of it, Euston Road. 
See what I mean by a busy architecture? But the angles and the shapes look very nice. Notice the busts on the top of the windows? 
This is wrought iron railing…imagine the artisanship which went into this. 
The entrance posts are heavily worn away
More arches
A lovely curve
Entrance sigh
A sign on the side, hmmm, ok. Why would anybody want to buy the sun? and how much would they have to pay for it? 
The exit pillar
Reflections on the building in front of it
See? 
And the balcony kind of stuff…this leads to the entrance to the Kings Cross Station underground. Lovely place…
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