The engineer William Henry Barlow designed the station, with wrought iron pillars supporting a single-span roof. It opened on October 1, 1868. The train shed is 689 feet (210 m) long, 240 feet (73.2 m) wide and 100 feet (30.5 m) high at the apex above the tracks.
George Gilbert Scott won the competition to design the Midland Grand Hotel, an ornate red-brick scheme derived from Italian Gothic architecture. The main section of the hotel opened on May 5, 1873. The station was given Grade I listed building status in November 1967.
A refurbishment costing in the region of 800 million pounds made the complex the terminal for High Speed 1. Queen Elizabeth II relaunched it as St Pancras International on November 6, 2007. A bronze statue of John Betjeman by Martin Jennings stands above the Arcade concourse and was unveiled on November 12, 2007.
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