The Midland Grand Hotel - St Pancras
Posted by Ruth Miller on Fri 16th November 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Hotels
The all new St Pancras Station opens for business this week and quite frankly it looks stunning. Mind you, so it should for £800 million. This isn’t the end of the story though, the Midland Hotel which last operated in 1937 is due to open in February 2009. The red-brick building created in high Gothic style, which fronts the station and was designed as a railway hotel by Sir George Gilbert Scott only survived demolition through the tenacity of Sir John Betjeman who fought to preserve the original structure as a Grade I listed building.
The new Midland Hotel will include a ballroom, swimming pool, a number of function rooms and the main restaurant will be returned to the Victorian style incorporating many original features such as a cantilevered staircase, wrought ironwork, stained glass and Minton tiling. 67 apartments will be added at the top of the building.
Quite frankly, I can’t wait to see what they’ve done with this masterpiece of a building.
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