# Merrick Square

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Merrick_Square
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Merrick_Square.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Square
> Source revision: 1355062279
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Garden square in Newington, London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
thumb|Merrick Square
'''Merrick Square''' is a [garden square](/source/garden_square) in [Newington](/source/Newington%2C_London), London. The square is named after [Christopher Merrick](/source/Christopher_Merrick), a London merchant who in 1661 left land to [Trinity House](/source/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](/source/Trinity_Church_Square) 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](/source/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>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{coord|51.4980|-0.0922|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}}

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

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Merrick Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Square) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Square?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.