{{Short description|Garden square in Newington, London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Merrick Square '''Merrick Square''' is a garden square in Newington, London. The square is named after Christopher Merrick, a London merchant who in 1661 left land to Trinity House Corporation. The Corporation subsequently developed housing on the land, grouped around a series of squares of which Merrick Square is one.
There are 32 houses that were built from 1853 to 1872, and they overlook a private garden in the centre, which is still enclosed by its original 19th-century cast-iron railings.<ref name=LPGT>{{cite web|title=Merrick Square|url=https://londongardenstrust.org/conservation/inventory/site-record/?ID=SOU057|website=London Parks and Gardens Trust|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref>
The rectory of Holy Trinity church sits between 16 and 17 Merrick Square on the south-west side.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Trinity House Estate Pages 105-116 Survey of London: Volume 25, St George's Fields (The Parishes of St. George the Martyr Southwark and St. Mary Newington). |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25/pp105-116#h2-0010 |website=British History Online |publisher=LCC, 1955 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref>
In 1861, the cricketer Alfred Mynn died at his brother's house at 22 Merrick Square.<ref name=Soton>{{cite web|title=Mynn, Alfred|url=http://ffrdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Goudhurst.html|website=Soton.ac.uk|accessdate=7 December 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209124710/http://ffrdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Goudhurst.html|archivedate=9 December 2014}}</ref>
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Category:Squares in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Streets in the London Borough of Southwark Category:1853 establishments in England Category:Garden squares in London