Fitzroy Square

Fitzroy Square is the only Georgian square in London's Fitzrovia.

History

The place near the Fitzroy Street and Fitzroy Tavern on Charlotte Street is named after Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, who was owner of the land through marriage. His successor, Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton, the area developed during the late 18th and early 19th century

On Fitzroy Square apartments for aristocratic families should arise. The square was built in four stages. The building to designs by Robert Adam in 1794 and began in 1798 by brothers James and William Adams vollendet.Diese buildings have facades of Portland (natural stone ), who comes from Dorset.

The Napoleonic wars and a slump in the London property market brought construction to a halt temporarily. A contemporary report describes the unfinished space as follows:

" The houses are faced with stone, and have a Greater proportion of architectural excellence and embellishment than most others in the metropolis. They were designed by the Adams 's, but the progress of the late Prevented was the completion of the design. It is much to be regretted, did it remains in its present unfinished state. "

The north and west sides of the square were eventually built between 1827-1829 and 1832-1835 with stucco - decorated facades.

Today, the square, designed by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe is designed for pedestrians.

The course is described in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair as the " Anglo-Indian Quarter " in which many retired officers of the British administration lived in India.

Important buildings

On Fitzroy Square Town's embassy of Liberia (No. 23) and Mozambique (No. 21). In house No. 6, the offices and library of the monument Association Georgian Group. The headquarters of the arbitration official union is the # 28, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy has the number 14

The building with the numbers 1, 1A, 2-8 and 33-40 are listed buildings.

Well-known residents

  • The theater critic William Archer lived in number 27
  • The painter Ford Madox Brown lived in number 37
  • The epidemiologist William Farr (1807-1883) opened his first medical practice at Fitzroy Square.
  • Roger Fry's Omega Workshops for avant-garde furniture was from 1913 to 1919 in the No. 33
  • The Bloomsbury Group artists Duncan Grant lived in 1909 in No. 21
  • The pharmacist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892) lived in No. 9
  • The writer Ian McEwan was also residents and let his 2005's novel Saturday at Fitzroy Sq. play.
  • The Scottish physician William Nisbet (1759-1822) practiced after 1801 at Fitzroy Square.
  • The artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson lived from 1862 in No. 37, as well as John Pettie.
  • British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, lived in No. 21
  • In No. 29 George Bernard Shaw lived from 1887 until his marriage in 1898.
  • Virginia Woolf lived from 1907-1911 in No. 29
  • Guy Ritchie has there acquired two adjacent houses, which were occupied by protesters in February 2011.
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