Victorian Architecture Continued
Following on from an earlier post on Victorian Architecture we pick things up in the 1860s. 1865 St Pancras Station/ Midland Grand Hotel / St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel In London 1865 while Midland Railway were constructing St. Pancras station they held a competition to design the station front and an adjacent 150 bedroom hotel. Midland Railway had decided to build their own terminus in London allowing better access to the capital for passengers on their extensive network across the North of England and the Midlands. The site chosen was located next to King's Cross Station, owned by rival company Great Northern Railway. Midland Railway decided their new station was to be an engineering masterpiece with architect William Henry Barlow designing a single span, iron roof that would create the largest enclosed space ever built in the world. St Pancras A Cathedral Of The Railways Architect George Gilbert Scott who was best known for his work in the Gothic Revival style on cathe