BILL OF PANCRAS WELLS, circ. 1730, SHOWING THE WELLS, AND THE ADAM AND EVE TAVERN NEAR ST. PANCRAS CHURCH.
According to Lysons, the Pancras water continued in esteem till some years before 1795, but when he wrote (1795–1811) the Well appears to have been enclosed in the garden of a private house. Part of the site of the old Wells and walks was formerly occupied by the houses in Church Row, but these have been swept away for the premises of the Midland Railway connected with the St. Pancras Terminus.[127]
[T. Brown’s Letters from the Dead to the Living, part ii. first published 1702, “Moll Quarles to Mother Creswell”; Dodsley’s London, 1761, s.v. “Pancras”; Lysons’s Environs, iii. (1795), p. 381; Supplement (1811), p. 283; Gent. Mag. 1813, pt. 2, p. 556; Beauties of England and Wales, x. part iv. (1816), p. 175; Clinch’s Marylebone and St. Pancras; Palmer’s St. Pancras; Miller’s St. Pancras; Roffe’s St. Pancras (1865), p. 10; Lewis’s Islington, p. 37, note; Walford, v. 339.]
VIEWS.
1. A bird’s-eye view of St. Pancras Wells, showing the garden, house, &c., the old church, &c., with a description of the mineral waters. A tinted drawing, 1751, Crace, Cat. p. 580, No. 57. The original engraving is of circ. 1730; see Palmer’s St. Pancras, p. 246, ff.; Clinch’s Marylebone, p. 156; Walford, v. 336.
2. “The south-west view of Pancras Church and Wells.” Chatelain del., J. Roberts sc., 1750. Crace, Cat. p. 579, No. 45; W. Coll. (Pl. 30 in Chatelain’s Fifty Views); also the south-east view, Chatelain’s Fifty Views, pl. 29, with “Adam and Eve.”
3. Pancras Wells. A north view of the garden, house, &c. Copy of an old drawing, 1775, Crace, Cat. p. 580, No. 58.
4. A view of the Long Room at St. Pancras, and the Trap-Ball Ground. Copy of an old drawing, 1775. Crace, Cat. p. 580, No. 59.
5. Colonel Jack robbing Mrs. Smith going to Kentish Town (near the Wells). W. Jett del., J. Basire sc., 1762. Crace, Cat. p. 580, No. 60.