St George's Fields, Westminster

St George's Fields are a former burial ground of St George's, Hanover Square, lying between Connaught Street and Bayswater Road in Tyburnia deconsecrated and sold off by the Church Commissioners in the 1970s to be built upon by The Utopian Housing Association, a housing trust.

The architects, Design 5, used a ziggurat style of building (similar to the Brunswick by Patrick Hodgkinson), retaining much of the open space whilst creating 300 dwellings.

Parts of the double walls surrounding the burial ground - reputedly designed to frustrate grave robbers - have been preserved along with a number of tombstones.

The estate is now in private ownership[1] although the grounds of St George's Fields are opened to the public once a year under the London Garden Square Scheme[2] when one of London's oldest plane trees, with a girth of over 18 ft (5.5 m), may be seen set amongst the other trees.

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