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St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London near Green Park. [1] It was first developed around 1694, the historian John Strype describing it in 1720 as a "good Street ... which receiveth a fresh Air out of the Park; the Houses are well-built, and inhabited by Gentry ..." [2] [3] Henry Benjamin Wheatley wrote in 1870 that ...
Spencer House is a historic town house at 27 St James's Place in the St James's area of Westminster, Greater London, England. The house is Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England . [ 1 ]
St James's Street is the principal street in the district of St James's, central London. It runs from Piccadilly downhill to St James's Palace and Pall Mall . The main gatehouse of the Palace is at the southern end of the road; in the 17th century, Clarendon House faced down the street across Piccadilly from the site of what is now Albemarle ...
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.
The Proclamation Gallery overlooking Friary Court at St James's Palace, London, where the proclamation of a new monarch is traditionally first read. The Proclamation Gallery is a part of St James's Palace, and it is used after the death of a reigning monarch. The Accession Council meets to declare the new monarch.
The Stafford is a five star hotel in St James's Place in London, England. [1] Built in the 17th century, its wine cellars may be the oldest in London. [2] [3] Previously used as private residences, the buildings were opened as a hotel in 1912. Allied soldiers used them as air raid shelters during the Second World War. [1]
St James's Market, St James's Place, St James's Square, St James's Street and Little St James's Street – all from St James's Palace, [41] built on the site of the medieval St James's leper hospital which was dedicated to St James the Less, apostle and Bishop of Jerusalem, [2] [3] or, according to Sheila Fairfield, writing in The Streets of ...
In 1630, St James's Field, London's first pall-mall court, was laid out to the north of the Haymarket – St James road. [5] After the Restoration and King Charles II's return to London on 29 May 1660, another pall-mall court was constructed in St James's Park just south of the wall, on the site of The Mall. [3]