| has gloss | eng: St Georges Square is a long narrow garden square in Pimlico, London, SW1. Pimlicos development was started in 1835 by the landowner, the Marquess of Westminster, and the building was supervised by Thomas Cubitt who also designed the gardens. St Georges Square was originally laid out in 1839 as two parallel streets running north-south but by 1843 had been developed into a formal square, Londons only residential square open to the River Thames. The first residents moved in in 1854. - wearing a Roman senatorial toga. The statue was originally designed for the London Royal Exchange; it was placed in the gardens in 1915. The statue was described by Sir Osbert Sitwell as "boredom rising from the bath". The Church of St Saviour (1864) stands at the north end of the square; it was designed by Thomas Cundy the Younger who was the surveyor for the Grovesnor Estate. |
