St. James's Square is a garden square in the St. James's district of the City of Westminster, London, England. It features Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture and was one of the most fashionable residential streets in London in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the 1830s and 1840s the square bean to acquire less fashionable businesses and residences, including the London Library, an independent lending library established in 1841 on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle. It features a stone-plinthed equestrian status of William III erected in 1808 at the centre of the square.
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