Tuesday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm
The Crypt St. Pancras Church
Euston NW1 2BA (Entrance on Duke's Road)
The exhibition Noyah-Luce is set to illuminate not only London’s winter art schedule, but also its carefully chosen venue: The Crypt St. Pancras Church. Forget all connotations of the dark, the dank and the decrepit; The Crypt is a place to celebrate life and human creative achievement. Noyah-Luce is the concluding show in a busy 2004 arts programme; that includes the church’s ever-popular free lunchtime music recitals held every Thursday.
Aesthetically, St. Pancras Church is stunningly distinctive. Created by the architect William Inwood and his son Henry between 1819 and 1822, the building’s inspiration came from the Ionic Temple of Erectheum on Athens’ Acropolis, while the church’s tower is based on Androncicus Cyrrhestes water clock: ‘The Tower of the Winds’. At the time, St. Pancras Church was London’s most expensive church since the rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral, constructed at the then astronomical cost of £89, 296.
The Crypt itself provides an intensely atmospheric backdrop to promote the work of a wide variety of visual artists and sculptors, kept under the watchful eye of the ‘caryatids’. These columns in the form of draped classical female figures assist in providing an example of one of the finest ‘Greek Revival’ style buildings anywhere in the world. As well as being used as a burial chamber until 1854, with 476-recorded burials, The Crypt has also served as an air-raid shelter during the Blitz on London in World War Two.
St. Pancras Church today serves the spiritual needs, as well as the artistic nourishment, for a diverse and hectically paced inner-London community that spans students, immigrants, hotel and office workers, together with some of the city’s busiest train stations and hospitals, encompassing all facets of human experience and emotion. This is a truly exceptional space to be hosting Noyah-Luce, featuring the work of three of London’s most luminous up-coming talents: Roberto Bortolotti, Rob Dewan-Syed and Rebecca Evanson.
Getting there
The Crypt is on Duke’s Road, off Euston Road. It is opposite to the Place and a short walk from Euston, Euston Square and
Kings Cross St. Pancras.
Many bus services run along or across
Euston Road, including 10, 30, 59, 73, 89, 91, 186, 205, 390
and 476.
