A painted ceiling, a rainbow arch, a library under the beams and the old clock winding room, in a private flat at the top of St Pancras.

Eight-metre palms, brass chandeliers and Gothic windows in St Pancras station's old Victorian ticket hall.

Between King's Cross Station and the British Library sits the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. A Gothic Revival pile that opened in 1873 as the Midland Grand Hotel, closed in 1935, stood empty and condemned for decades, and reopened in 2011 after a £200 million restoration. It is best known today for one thing, and it is not the bedrooms. It is the Grand Staircase. Since 3 June 2025 the hotel has traded as St. Pancras London, Autograph Collection, still a Marriott property. Most