Art & Artefacts

We're excited to announce St. Pancras International's brand-new art initiative, St. Pancras Wires.

A 9m tall bronze statue of a couple's embrace by the world renowned sculptor Paul Day.

Poet, Sir John Betjeman lead a campaign to save St. Pancras Station and the Chambers from demolition in the 1960's.

Sir Elton John surprised and delighted St. Pancras visitors with a mesmerising piano performance in February, 2016...

The famous St. Pancras DENT London clock has been reconstructed by the original makers...

On its 150th anniversary and the centenary of the end of World War I, St. Pancras International unveiled on 8th November 2018, a permanent war memorial.

The Royal Academy of Arts and HS1 Ltd. has revealed a major site-specific installation, I Want My Time With You, 2018, by Royal Academician Tracey Emin for Terrace Wires, the station’s public commissioning programme for new artwork by leading international artists.

2017's art project was The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue), by Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross.

The 2016 artwork was by designer and Royal Academician Ron Arad. His installation, Thought of Train of Thought, was an 18-metre-long twisted blade that rotated slowly to create an optical illusion of horizontal, train-like movement.

Cornelia Parker’s work, One More Time, in 2015, was a working replica of the station’s DENT London clock. Reversed out in black and silver, it became reminiscent of a photographic negative. The black clock was suspended 16 metres in front of the original, so for those alighting from the trains the original face will gradually appear eclipsed.

In April 2014, we launched the second sculpture of the Terrace Wires series at St Pancras International, Chromolocomotion by David Batchelor. The colourful artwork was unlike anything ever seen at St Pancras International bathing the Grand Terrace in a Kaleidoscope of colour.

Cloud : Meteoros was the first piece of public art to fill the momentous space left by Olympic Rings. Designed by celebrated sculptor and British-born artist Lucy Orta and her husband Jorge, the piece was suspended above the vast Grand Terrace for six months in 2013.