The Crypt Gallery

If you are in need of a quirky space for running an art exhibition, the gallery crypt below St Pancras Church may be the area for you. With tens of individual arches for housing art pieces, twinned with the unique atmosphere only original stonework crypts like this exude, your event could be something quite special.
The fantasy animals exhibit I was perusing this certain day, didn’t grab me. The space is raw, but holds much potential for someone with imagination.

The Crypt of St Pancras Parish Church was used for coffin burials in the 1800s. In both world wars the Crypt was used as an air raid shelter. In 2002 the Crypt became a gallery space, providing an intensely atmospheric backdrop to promote the work of a wide variety of artists, kept under the watchful eye of the caryatids.

The Crypt is an underground space often with vaulted ceilings and is the burial place for priests, bishops, archbishops, kings, and those who could afford to pay a hefty sum then to be exclusively buried within the church premises.
Built in the early 1800’s the St. Pancras Church has a romanesque structure with vestries guarding the vault to the crypt. Built of portland stone now weathered due to pollution, its an outstanding architectural feature in this part of the city of London. And if your curious enought to want to know more about its history, you know you’ll have to personally make a visit!
The Crypt gallery has a leftover essense of a burial chamber, but it has interesting features within to give importance to any art work exhibited. Every exhibition has an element of celebrating the ‘human-​ness’ of people and life. The variety of exhibitions on display suggest so. Not new to our knowledge the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo on commision by the church; this similar feat taken by the 21^st century church to encourage artists has similar roots.
A place and space to explore and be inspired.