St Andrew's Square (2407559020)
St Andrew's Square can mean: * St Andrew's Square, Glasgow * St Andrew's Square, Kingston upon Thames, a garden square in London * St Andrew Square, Edinburgh St Andrew Square is a garden square in Edinburgh, Scotland located at the east end of George Street. The gardens, part of the collection of New Town Gardens, are owned by a number of private owners, managed by Essential Edinburgh and opened to ...

St Andrew's Square, Glasgow
St Andrew's Square is a public square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland and lies to the south east corner of Glasgow Cross, close to Glasgow Green. The square is noted for its immense 18th-century classical church, St Andrew's in the Square, from which the square takes its name. The church was completed in 1758, to the designs of architect Allan Dreghorn and master mason Mungo Naismith and is among the finest of its type anywhere in Britain. The interior has lavish 18th century rococo plasterwork. The building is Category A listed. It is one of six squares in the city centre. The church standing amidst fields on the banks of the Molendinar Burn, was later enclosed by a square, encouraged by the town council who sold the ground to builder developer William Hamilton of Glassford, Lanarkshire, building between 1786 and the early 1790s. He was also the architect of the Tontine in the Trongate. The square became a fashionable residence for some of Glasgow's wealthiest merchants. "H ...
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St Andrew's Square, Kingston Upon Thames
St. Andrews Square is a mainly 1876 to 1884-built garden square in Surbiton in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, London. Layout The houses enclose a zone of by , so . A railed park takes up a little over half of this space, and the flanking, capillary, streets and pavements are broad. The eponymous street lines three sides, but not the east (St. James Road). In the north-west corner it has a short continuation fronting houses. Numbering, where used, is consecutive; to north: No.s 1 to 15 and to south: No.s 30, 30A, 31 to 40. Facing the west side, ''Little Dell and Little Rex'' are houses enjoying a garden greater than footprint, the other, ''Rex House'' matches the rest of the homes (ratio of the two land uses including much hardstanding to front yards (not part of the original scheme) is near 1:1). Eight apartments occupy the former houses No.s 28 and 29. Some of the houses have been internally split into flats. Mature, oldest trees and all buildings' faça ...
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