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No. 4 St James's Place, from where Frédéric Chopin left for the Guildhall on 16 November 1848 for his last public performance. Joseph Addison (1672–1719), author and politician who founded The Spectator, lived here in 1710. [3] Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), English writer and politician. [3]
In 1997 J. Rothschild Assurance merged with – and took on the name of – a much smaller entity, St. James's Place Capital. [13] The business was restructured and transferred to a new legal entity in 2000, when Halifax plc (formerly the Halifax Building Society) took a 60 per cent shareholding for £760 million. [14]
The palace gives its name to the Court of St James's, which is the monarch's royal court, and is located in the City of Westminster. Although no longer the principal residence of the monarch, it is the ceremonial meeting place of the Accession Council , the office of the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps , and the London residence of several ...
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 Westminster, Part 1 – a volume of the Survey of London which provides a very detailed architectural history of most of St James's. However a few sections of the parish of St James's fall outside the district, so they are omitted . Map of St James's and surrounding areas Archived 2 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
The St James's Place Festival Hunters' Chase is a National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain for amateur riders which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 3 miles and 2½ furlongs (3 miles 2 furlongs and 70 yards, or 5,294 metres), and during its running there are twenty ...
St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London. St James's Place or St. James Place may also refer to: St. James's Place plc, branded as St. James's Place Wealth Management, a British wealth management firm based in Cirencester, England; St. James Place, the working title of the 2015 American film Bridge of Spies
St James' Church is an Anglican church in St James Place, Toxteth, Liverpool, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building . [ 1 ] Having been declared redundant in 1974, it returned to active use in 2010 as St James in the City .