PANCRAS, a town of England, in the county of Middlesex, on the north-west side of London, in the highway to Kentish-town. Its church is one of the prebends of St Paul's, of which cathedral some call it the mother, it being thought to be as old as that church even in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when it is represented as weather-beaten and standing alone, without any company, though it had formerly many buildings about it. In its church-yard lie many Roman Catholics. At a public-house on the south side of the church is a medicinal spring.