Holy Cross Church is a church on

Cromer Street Cromer Street is a road in St Pancras, London in central London, England. It starts in the west at Judd Street, then goes east, ending at Gray's Inn Road. It gave access from Gray's Inn Road to Greenland Place and a bowling green. History ...

in the St Pancras area of the London Borough of Camden. It was built 1887–88 by Joseph Peacock.

History

The church began as a district chapelry in 1876 before becoming a parish in 1888. Its parish was merged with that of St.Jude Gray's Inn Road (demolished 1936) in 1935 and that of St Peter's Regent Square in 1954 (damaged in the Blitz and demolished in 1954). In 1988 its Crypt Centre was set up to work for the homeless, and the church is still in use under its parish priest Christopher Cawrse. The church was designated a Grade II listed building on 14 May 1974. The painting '' Santa Maria Magdalena'' by Reginald Gray hangs in the small chapel.Portrait in tempera and marble dust on wood
- artist's website

Notable clergy

Hope Patten Alfred Hope Patten (17 November 1885 in the Town Brewery, Sidmouth – 11 August 1958 in the College, Little Walsingham), known as "Pat" to his friends, was an Anglo-Catholic priest in the Church of England, best known for his restoration of ...

, served his curacy here in the 1910s

References

External links

Official page
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