Last week I dragged my son for a walk around St Pancras Gardens. These gardens are the burial ground attached to St Pancras Old Church. The burial ground contains some architecturally significant tombs, including that of Sir John Soane (one of only two Grade I listed monuments in London).
The Hardy Tree
This was a famous landmark in the gardens. Thomas Hardy (the author) had worked on relocating the grave stones around Old St Pancras when the Midland Railway line was being built as part of the development of St Pancras station in the 1860s. Unfortunately the tree fell down in 2022.
I know that my relative Sir William Mansel, 10th Baronet, was buried in the churchyard in 1829.
Death Notice in the Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal, Isle of Ely Herald and Huntingdonshire Gazette, Friday, September 4, 1829, Page 2.
His body was probably moved elsewhere when the cemetery closed in 1854.
