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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.
St James's was once part of the same royal park as Green Park and St. James's Park.In the 1660s, Charles II gave the right to develop the area to Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans who developed it as a predominantly aristocratic residential area around a grid of streets centred on St James's Square.
St. James Square Historic District, San Jose, California; St. James Square, the historic campus of the Toronto Normal School, Ontario, Canada; Sankt Jakobs Plads (St. James' Square), Copenhagen, Denmark; St James's Square, London, England; The original name of Telfair Square in Savannah, Georgia; St James Square, Monmouth, Wales
5, St James's Square (anciently Wentworth House) is a Grade II* listed historic townhouse in London, England, built 1748–51 by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791) to the design of Matthew Brettingham the Elder.
William ruled jointly with his wife, Mary, [2] James's daughter, until her death in 1694, and then solely until his own death in 1702. [3] In 1697 the first proposal had been made to erect a statue in the king's honour in St James's Square, home to many of his strongest supporters. [ 4 ]
The later Norfolk House at 31 St James's Square, Westminster, was built between 1748 and 1752 as the London townhouse of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686–1777), to the design of Matthew Brettingham (1699–1769), "the Elder". This building was demolished in 1938. [2]
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.
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 ...