Queen Square, London
51°31′19″N 0°7′20″W / 51.52194°N 0.12222°W Coordinates: Extra unexpected parameters
Queen Square is a square in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England. Queen Square was originally constructed between 1716 and 1725.
Name
The square was previously named Queen Anne's Square because a statue contained within it was misidentified as depicting Queen Anne. This statue is now believed to a portrayal of Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III.
George III was treated for mental illness in a house on Queen Square towards the end of his reign. The public house on the southwest corner of the square, called 'the Queen’s Larder' was, according to legend, used by Queen Charlotte to store food for the King during his treatment.
Buildings
Many of the buildings surrounding the square are devoted to providing, researching and administering health care. Two hospitals, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), often wrongly termed 'Queen Square Hospital', and the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, make up the east side of the square. The Institute of Neurology, part of University College London (UCL), is located in the north east corner of the square. The former Institute for Public Health takes up much of the north side - the building is now used as the administrative centre for the NHNN and Institute of Neurology.
Several buildings on the west side of the square are devoted to medical research and are part of the Institute of Neurology and other departments of UCL. These include Alexandra House at 17 Queen Square which houses the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. The Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience and Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) are located at 12 Queen Square. 8-11 Queen Square (Sir Charles Symmonds House) houses the Dementia Research Centre on the first floor and outpatient facilities for the NHNN on the ground floor.
At the southern end of the square is the church of St George the Martyr, the Mary Ward Centre and the former Italian Hospital, now part of Great Ormond Street Hospital (whose main buildings are in the immediate vicinity).
External links
References
- Richard Tames. Bloomsbury Past (Historic Publications LTD, ISBN 0-948667-20-6
- Godfrey Heathcote Hamilton. Queen Square (Leonard Parsons, Edition 1926)
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