Chester Square is an elongated residential garden square in

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Belgravia Belgravia () is a Districts of London, district in Central London, covering parts of the areas of both the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Belgravia was known as the 'Five Fields' Tudor Period, during the ...

district. It was developed by the

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, as were the nearby

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and

Eaton Square Eaton Square is a rectangular, residential garden square in London's Belgravia district. It is the largest square in London. It is one of the three squares built by the landowning Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgra ...

. The square is named after the city of Chester, the city nearest the Grosvenors' ancestral home of Eaton Hall. No.32 was used as a backdrop for video accompanying

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's track "

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". The whole except No.s 80a, 81, 81a, 82, 83 and 83a (so No.s 1–13 and 14–23, 24–32, 37–39, 42–45, 45a, 45b, 65–76 and 77–80, 80a, and 84–88 and the Mews Arch) is listed Grade II for architectural merit. The (private, communal) gardens are Grade II listed on the

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St Michael's Church

The

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church of Saint Michael in Chester Square was built in 1844 along with the rest of the square, and consecrated two years later. ''

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'' magazine criticised the opening, saying it was "an attempt - but happily a most unsuccessful one - to find a Protestant development of the Christian styles". The church is in the late

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style, with an exterior of Kentish Ragstone. The architect was Thomas Cundy the younger.

Notable residents

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and former owner of

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, poet and critic *

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, actor, had a house here when he was filming ''

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'' in the early 1970s. *

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and Julie Andrews, film director and his actress wife, lived here for a few years in the early 1970s after their departure from Hollywood *

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, King of the Hellenes, bought a lease on a house at No. 45 shortly before his return to Greece in 1946 *

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and

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, pop musicians, lived here in 1966-67 *

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, celebrity chef and food writer; daughter of Conservative former Cabinet Minister Lord Lawson *Sir John Liddell, doctor and director-general of the

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medical department, lived at No. 72 until his death in 1868 * Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, American-born violinist and conductor * Edward Ford, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, lived at No. 16 during the 1950s *

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, former British Conservative Prime Minister, lived at No. 73 until shortly before her death in 2013 * Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, had her headquarters at No. 77 during the

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*Major Conrad Norman, Senior Gunnery Officer Royal Artillery Woolwich, Dunkirk survivor, officer in charge of British coastal gun emplacements in the Second World War, lived at No. 56 from 1946 until 1951 *

Gideon Mantell Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was a British obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of ''Iguanodon'' began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in ...

, an obstetrician, geologist, and palaeontologist, whose attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of the Iguanodon began the scientific discovery of dinosaurs, lived until his death at No. 19. *

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, a broadcaster on religious matters for the

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St Michael's Church

Notable residents

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