graveyard, in the course of the construction of the Midland Railway's London terminus. More burials were removed in 2002. The churchyard was reopened in June 1877 as St Pancras Gardens, following the movement to allow conversion of disused burial grounds into public gardens. Angela Burdett-Coutts, an important local benefactress, laid the foundation stone of the memorial sundial she had presented. A recent addition is a polished marble stone at the entrance to the church, a collaboration between and a gift from the poet Jeremy Clarke and the sculptor Emily Young. It is inscribed: "And I am here / in a place / beyond desire or fear", an extract from the long poem "Praise" by Clarke. Names of note listed on the Burdett Coutts Memorial as lost This impressive monument was erected in 1877 when the northern half of the churchyard was formalised as a public park, clearing most of the smaller gravestones. It lists stones lost to this and earlier clearances for the railways. William Brett (d.1828), artist and engraver Henry Burdett, goldsmith (d.1736) and ancestor of Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (the probable inspiration for the monument) Mary Burke, wife of John Burke (genealogist), author of Burke's Peerage Tiberius Cavallo, physicist and philosopher John Danby, musician Arthur Richard Dillon, French archbishop (later re-interred in France) Rufane Shaw Donkin, military hero who committed suicide Chevalier d'Eon, spy and fencer John Flaxman, sculptor John Fleetwood, baronet Bonaventure Giffard and his father Andrew Giffard John Ernest Grabe, theologian John Gurney, judge; this grave is intact and legible but the inscription faces the boundary Louis Charles d'Hervilly Giacomo Leoni, architect Maurice Margarot, reformer Thomas Mazzinghi, father of Joseph Mazzinghi Arthur O'Leary, Franciscan preacher Pasquale Paoli, Corsican hero (later re-interred in Corsica) Stephen Paxton, musician Simon François Ravenet, engraver Mary Slingsby, actress Charles Henry Talbot, baronet Henry Tempest (d.1753) John Walker, lexicographer; this monument still survives and was independently restored by Angela Burdett-Coutts Other known burials see and Carl Friedrich Abel, composer Johann Christian Bach, composer Peter van Bleeck, artist Francis Blyth, Carmelite friar and Roman Catholic priest Edward Boteler (d.1681), MP for Poole George Chalmers, artist Jeremy Collier, bishop Timothy Cunningham (d.1789), founder of the Cunningham Medal Charles Dillon, 10th Viscount Dillon (d.1741) and Lady Dillon (d.1751) and other family members Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin Bevil Higgons, historian Antoinette-Cecile de Saint-Huberty, opera singer Abraham Langford,