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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 ...
An old map showing the gardens as burial grounds (the second block south of Grosvenor Square). The land was originally sold by Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Bart. to the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in 1723 as part of his development of the area around Mount Street, to serve as a burial ground for the parish church, St. George's, located in Hanover Square. [8]
The Eagle Squadrons Memorial is a Second World War memorial in Grosvenor Square, London.It commemorates the service of the three Royal Air Force Eagle Squadrons from 1940 to 1942, during the Battle of Britain, and in particular their 244 Americans and 16 British fighter pilots, of whom 71 were killed.
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 Fountain Nymph was Munro's second treatment of the theme after that for the memorial to Herbert Ingram in Boston, Lincolnshire (1862–1863). He also produced a smaller marble version of the Berkeley Square Nymph, which was installed in a public garden in Oxford in around 1970. [5] Architectural sculpture 31 Old Bond Street: 1898–1900
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 ...
Speaking of historic—after an astonishing eight-year closure and gut renovation, the Waldorf Astoria New York is back and better than ever with a new vision of 21st-century luxury. The hotel ...
The Grosvenor estate, in the northwest corner between Oxford Street and Park Lane, was the most substantial private plot of land, featuring an orderly grid network of streets constructed around Grosvenor Square in the early 1720s. [30]