Page "St Pancras, London" Paragraph 7

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, St Pancras was famous for its cemeteries, for as well as the graveyard of Old St Pancras Church, it also contained the cemeteries of St James's Church, Piccadilly, St Giles in the Fields, St Andrew, Holborn, St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, and St George the Martyr, Holborn.

These were all closed under the Extramural Interment Act in 1854 ; the parish was required to purchase land some distance away, and chose East Finchley for its new St Pancras Cemetery.