Vincent Square

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Vincent Square is a large grass-covered square in Westminster, covering 13 acres. It provides playing fields by Westminster School.

It was created by Dean Vincent of Westminster school, a few hundred yards away, who, seeing that development was beginning to encroach on the wastelands of Tothill Fields, paid a man with a horse and plough to make a bank and ditch to enclose a suitable patch for the schoolboys. Until then the Tothill Fields had been a poor and dubious rural locality, where shooting snipe was the least objectionable of the pastimes enjoyed by the schoolboys at the "Five Chimneys", a disreputable tavern.

After the Second World War, the School with some difficulty resisted the efforts of the local Authority to retain its Square for public use.

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