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St. James's Square, c. 1722 Fitzroy Square. Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more hardscape, constituting town squares (also known as city squares)—to those with communal gardens, for which London is a major international exponent, known as garden squares.
This is a list of garden squares, broadly defined, in London, England.Unlike the list at Squares in London, which partially overlaps, these places all have a clear communal garden element and may be named other than Square; commonly in order, Gardens, Crescent, Place, Fields and Circus reflecting the diversity of the city's complex street layout.
St James's Square is the only square in the St James's district of the City of Westminster and is a garden square. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential streets in London.
Berkeley Square / ˈ b ɑːr k l i / is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London , located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster . It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent , and originally extended further south.
Grosvenor Square (/ ˈ ɡ r oʊ v ən ər / GROH-vən-ər) is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster , and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor".
It was one of the earliest London squares. [2] The Earl's own house, then known as Southampton House and later as Bedford House after the square and the rest of the Bloomsbury Estate passed by marriage from the Earls of Southampton to the Dukes of Bedford, occupied the whole of the north side of the square, where Bedford Place is now located. [3]
Typical buildings in Belgrave Square. Belgrave Square is a large 19th-century garden square in London. It is the centrepiece of Belgravia, and its architecture resembles the original scheme of property contractor Thomas Cubitt who engaged George Basevi for all of the terraces for the 2nd Earl Grosvenor, later the 1st Marquess of Westminster, in the 1820s.
Sussex Square is a garden square in Paddington in Central London. Located in the City of Westminster , it is part of the Tyburnia area north of Hyde Park . Stanhope Terrace runs along its southern side.