It is certain that the Park enjoys a fine situation, and is laid out with a very agreeable air of negligence. It affords many pleasant walks, diversified by new scenes, varied by different rural prospects, and the view of distant structures on the west side.
St. James’s Place, St. James’s street.
James’s rents, Hermitage dock.†
James’s rope-walk, 1. Red Maid lane.† 2. North of Bedford row.
St. James’s square, is very large and beautiful; the area on the inside is encompassed with iron rails which form an octagon, and in the center is a fine circular bason of water. On the north side of the square is St. James’s church, in a very fine situation with respect to the prospect, and had it been an elegant structure, would have had a very noble effect. An ingenious author observes, that though this square appears extremely grand, yet this grandeur does not arise from the magnificence of the houses; but only from their regularity, the neatness of the pavement, and the beauty of the bason in the middle: and that if the houses were built more in taste, and the four sides exactly correspondent to each other, the effect would be much more surprising, and the pleasure arising from it more just.
St. James’s street, Pall Mall.
James street, 1. Brook’s street, New Bond street.† 2. Bunhill fields.† 3. Covent garden.† 4. Golden square.† 5. Hare street.† 6. Hay market.† 7. Hoxton.† 8. Long Acre.† 9, Near Theobald’s row.† 10. Petty France, Westminster.†
Jane alley, Blackman street.
Jane Shore’s alley, Shoreditch. See Shoreditch.
Jane Shore’s yard, Shoreditch.