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The Hardy Tree and Soane Mausoleum

Thomas Hardy, famed 19th Century novelist, first trained as an architect, serving an apprenticeship from 1862 to 1867. During this time, his employer was charged with the dismantling of graves and removal of human remains from Old St Pancras Churchyard, to allow for construction of a railway line to King’s Cross. The job was entrusted to Hardy.

Whilst the bodies were removed and re-interred in new locations, the headstones (as was fairly common practice at the time) were to be discarded. However, Hardy stacked many in rough circles around an ash tree; as the tree grows, the headstones are still being gradually absorbed into it.

One resident of the churchyard who was not removed to make way for the railway was Sir John Soane, architect and collector. His mausoleum is still standing, and is one of only two Grade 1 listed monuments in London. It was constructed in 1816 following the death of his wife, Elizabeth. Soane designed the mausoleum himself, avoiding any Christian symbols, instead choosing images such as the ouroboros and pine cones. He was buried there himself in 1837. Interestingly, the domed top of the mausoleum would later inspire another architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in his designs for the classic red telephone box…

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Banck of England, 1972- 1823

John Soane

Sequences + sections. Source: http://caruso.arch.ethz.ch/