Cavendish Square

The south side itself is modern: the rear façade and accesses to a flagship department store and office block.

Planning permission was granted in April 2020 for a subterranean health and wellbeing development of 280,000 square feet across four storeys below ground level.

It was named after the Earl's wife Henrietta Cavendish-Holles, but the bursting of the South Sea Bubble delayed further work.

A blue plaque unveiled in 1951 commemorates H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916, having long lived at No.

Dr. Abraham Blackborne, grandson of Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, died at her home on Margaret Street, an approach way, in 1795 and was buried at Kew.

A statue of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland was erected in 1770, following his defeat of Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden in 1746, but was removed in the 1860s after public opinion of him had changed.

[6] The square was targeted on 17 December 1992 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, 15 minutes after another small bomb at John Lewis.

After damage of the London Blitz the nuns commissioned architect Louis Osman to restore the building and create a bridge between the two.

He approached Jacob Epstein for a Virgin and Child that would "levitate" above the arch and specified that it should be cast in lead which was plentiful from the bombed roofs.

However, Osman did not inform the mother superior that the sculptor was Jewish,[better source needed] which may have been an objection among some Catholics at the time.