The King's Cross St Pancras tube platform tile motif is quite literal as it is five crowns in the shape of a cross. The design is by Tom Eckersley who also designed the Finsbury Park station tile motif.

From 1830 to 1845 there was a large monument to King George IV at the junction of Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road and New Road, which later became Euston Road. The monument was sixty feet high and topped by an eleven-foot-high statue of the king.

It included a police station and a public house (pub). It was an unpopular building, and was demolished in 1845, but the area has kept the name of King's Cross.

There is a lot of regeneration work going on in the area and you can take free King's Cross Tours to find out more. See also: Where to Eat in King's Cross.

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With six tube lines crossing here, King's Cross St Pancras is one of the busiest stations on the network. It has 10 lifts (elevators) and is step-free from street to platform level. There are also 20 escalators within the tube station.

Heading south, the next station on the Victoria Line is Euston.

Heading north, the next station on the Victoria Line is Highbury & Islington.

See the full list of Victoria Line Tube Platform Tile Motifs.