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Upper Grosvenor Street is a one-way Georgian street in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. It runs from the north side of the Grosvenor House Hotel (fronting Park Lane ) to the south side of the London Chancery Building (fronting Grosvenor Square ); both have the longest frontage of their respective streets.
The central garden in Grosvenor Square, now a public park (pictured November 2008) 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 ...
12 Lower Grosvenor Street was home to the Alexandra Club, a private members club for women in Edwardian London. The club was founded in 1884, and closed in 1939. [2] 16 Lower Grosvenor Street was for some time the home of the Royal Institute of British Architects. [1] 46 was built by William Benson in 1725. In 1899 it was purchased by Sir Edgar ...
Mayfair is in the City of Westminster, and mainly consists of the historical Grosvenor estate and the Albemarle, Berkeley, Burlington, and Curzon estates. [2] It is bordered on the west by Park Lane, north by Oxford Street, east by Regent Street, and the south by Piccadilly. [3]
Grosvenor House was one of the largest townhouses in London, home of the Grosvenor family (the family of the Dukes of Westminster) for more than a century. Their original London residence was on Millbank , but after the family had developed their Mayfair estates, they moved to Park Lane to build a house worthy of their wealth, status and ...
The history of the Grosvenor Estate begins in 1677, [1] [2] with the marriage of 12 year-old heiress Mary Davies to Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (1656–1700). Mary had inherited the manor of Ebury, 500 acres of land north of the Thames to the west of the City of London. [2]
Grosvenor Chapel is an Anglican church in what is now the City of Westminster, in England, built in the 1730s. It inspired many churches in New England . It is situated on South Audley Street in Mayfair .
The Grosvenor Chapel is a Grade II* listed chapel on South Audley Street, and the only remaining original property on the north part of the street. [1] [7] It was built by Benjamin Timbrell in 1730, and became a chapel of ease for St George's Hanover Square Church in 1831. During World War II it was used by American armed forces.