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St pancras station grotesques
       
     
St pancras station grotesques

In 2003-4 Nina Bilbey and I replaced fourteen missing or broken grotesques on the octagonal turrets of the gateway tower of St Pancras Station, as part of the ongoing restoration of its Victorian Gothic façade. Twelve of the grotesques were carved as monstrous beasts, in the style of (but not exact copies of) surviving exemplars elsewhere on the building; a further two were carved as portrait caricatures of two gentlemen who spearheaded the restoration project. The stone is Ketton, a robust limestone from Rutland.  

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st pancras gateway tower.jpg
       
     
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graham 167.jpg
       
     
Picture 098.jpg