From St Albans City to the City in Less Than 30 Minutes

WELCOME

Situated in the picturesque city of St Albans, Gabriel Square lays claim to a genuine historic lineage, expressed through its name and the materiality of its buildings. This is balanced with a minimalist aesthetic and contemporary design approach, which ensures that each home is ideally suited to modern living.

The collection of 80 new homes comprises three and four-bedroom houses and one, two and three- bedroom apartments and duplexes, thoughtfully arranged around an integrated central green. All residents can enjoy the landscaped garden square, featuring world-class sculpture, as well as secure private underground parking. CGI INDICATIVE ONLY St Albans offers the best of all worlds: the amenities of a city in a tranquil village-like setting, and a contemporary lifestyle in a historic location. Impressive landmarks provide the backdrop to vibrant city life, where culture, boutique shopping and fine dining can be appreciated alongside A UNIQUE CITY expansive green spaces and picturesque waterways. This is the place to enjoy life without compromise.

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LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL

St Albans has a range of eateries to suit every taste and budget – from award-winning restaurants, to small, independent eateries tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the high street.

As well as modern British food and traditional pub dishes, residents can sample dishes from around the world, with a broad restaurant offering consisting of French, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Moroccan, Japanese, Lebanese and many more.

IMAGES - Prime Steak & Grill is situated in London Road just outside the city centre and across the road from the recently restored and re-opened art deco Odyssey Cinema.

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FINE DINING

Fine dining can be enjoyed throughout St Albans, from al fresco eateries along French Row, to well- loved spots such as Jamie’s Italian and Brasserie Blanc. For something more special, the award-winning Thompson is a popular choice, while St Michael’s Manor and the Restaurant at Sopwell House offer excellent cuisine in picturesque surrounds.

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RURAL CHARM AND RUSTIC CHARACTER

St Albans is contender for the most pubs per square mile in the whole of the UK. Local favourites include White Hart Tap, The Six Bells and Fighting Cocks, all of ALAMY which exude old-fashioned charm. Unsurprisingly, St Albans is home to The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and has its very own beer and cider festival.

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A UNIQUE SHOPPING DESTINATION

Speciality boutiques and independent retailers sit side by side with international stores and renowned designer brands to bring residents a unique local retail offering.

The range of shops means I don’t have to travel further afield to find the brands I love. I also enjoy picking up fresh, local produce from the twice-weekly street market

Gemma, local resident

Across two outdoor shopping centres, established stores such as Space NK, The White Company, French Connection, LK Bennett, Crew Clothing, Hotel Chocolat and Moss Bros provide retail therapy for even the most discerning of shoppers. Traditional street markets complete the offer – weekly markets with over 160 stalls bring the marketplace to life on Wednesdays and Saturdays, while the local farmers’ market offers high- quality fresh produce on the second Sunday of each month. IMAGES Overleaf from the top: Baked Nation, Victoria Street Outside of Jo Malone, Market Place. Sunday Farmers Market This page Hobbs, Christopher Place

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IMAGES Page left from the top: Gallery Rouge, Verulamium Museum, this page from the top: Street Busker, The Horn music and food venue, Abbey Theatre Studio, St Albans Town Hall,

CULTURALLY CURIOUS

St Albans has a thriving cultural life, with regular concerts and theatre productions at local venues such as Trestle Arts Base, Maltings Arts Theatre and the Alban Arena.

Live music, comedy nights and two local museums dedicated to the historic town and Roman life make the city an inspiring place to live. Its cultural offer is continuously expanding, with the city’s small contemporary art galleries soon to be complemented by a new gallery, museum and St Albans Town Hall is transforming into creative venue in the existing Town Hall. an engaging new museum and gallery at the heart of the city. Spanning more than 2000 years, the objects and stories on display will reveal the history of this important place and highlight some of its famous characters. 11 12 GABRIEL SQUARE A UNIQUE CITY

CINEMATIC BRILLIANCE

Gabriel Square sits opposite one of St Albans’ cultural gems, the iconic Odyssey cinema. The site has been home to picture houses since 1908 and has been returned to its former glory after years of dereliction, bringing the cinema experience back to life in a traditional theatre setting.

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St Albans is blessed with expansive green open spaces and public waterways, including the nearby Clarence Park, the Watercress Wildlife Association, Sopwell Nunnery and the picturesque River Ver Trail.

Most cherished locally is Verulamium Park, from where visitors can admire magnificent views of the Cathedral and Abbey Church, and enjoy a wide range of facilities. Sports amenities, including football pitches and tennis courts, can be found alongside a children’s water playground and park café, making the spot a perfect place for all ages. The nearby Westminster Lodge leisure centre supplements Verulamium Park’s amenities with a climbing wall, swimming pool, sports hall and Verulamium Spa.

IMAGES - left: View from the Verulamium Park, this page: Verulamium lake Sopwell Nunnery

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100 ACRES OF BEAUTIFUL PARKLAND

Take a stroll around Verulamium Park’s ornamental lake, feast your eyes on the expansive parkland, and explore all that the Green Flag Award and Heritage Site has to offer. Teeming with waterfowl, including swans, herons, ducks and coots, the park’s Roman roots still remain – the city walls and outline of the main London Gate can still be seen today. GABRIEL SQUARE NATURALLY GIFTED

OUTSTANDING SCHOOLS

Gabriel Square is extremely well located for the most prestigious state schools in Hertfordshire. Many primaries in the centre of St Albans have a good or outstanding rating from Ofsted, including St Peter’s, Aboyne Lodge, Alban City School, and Maple (which is in the Top 500 in the country).

The state secondary schools are excellent too, and include the popular Verulam School for boys, St Albans Girls’ School, Beaumont School and Sandringham School. Some students attend Parmiter’s, a partially-selective school that is one of the highest performing schools in England – an easy bus journey from central St Albans.

The independent sectors also offers exceptional options including St Columba’s College, St Albans School and St Albans High School for Girls.

The schools in St Albans are among the most sought after in the country, in both the state and independent sectors

Catherine Bassindale, SchoolGuru.

ST ALBANS SCHOOL 19 St Albans Cathedral, at 85 metres, has the longest nave of any cathedral in England.

ECCLESIASTICAL GRANDEUR AND ARCHITECTURAL CHARM

The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban is the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain, built in honour of the first British martyr.

Its impressive stature and multifaceted architectural style make it a source of local and national pride. Careful restoration has ensured that the building has flourished well into the 21st century. Along its nave, the longest in England, are outstanding medieval wall paintings, which fortunately survived the Reformation. The Cathedral and its grounds are used by the city for great civic celebrations, fundraising and charity events, and is the backdrop to the annual bonfire displays.

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ARCHAEOLOGY The City is an archaeological THROUGH THE treasure house full of AGES amazing discoveries and From the splendour of its Cathedral to the medieval Clock Tower and the ruins of Sopwell Nunnery, St inspiring buildings in Albans has a truly rich and colourful history. unexpected corners.”

The Clock Tower, which dates back to 1403, stands St Albans Tour Guides as a rare example of medieval belfry and a symbol of the people’s resistance against the power of the abbot of St Albans. The bell itself weighs one tonne and is still housed on the fourth floor. It bears the inscription ‘Gabriel’, from which the name Gabriel Square derives. Sopwell Nunnery is home to the romantic ruins of Lee Hall, a Tudor mansion built in 1560 by Sir Richard Lee, an advisor to Henry VIII. It takes its name from the medieval nunnery originally built on the grounds in 1140. Today, the relic stands as a reminder of days gone by, its peaceful surroundings making the perfect spot for a summer stroll or family picnic.

IMAGES from the top: Sopwell Nunnery; Roman Theatre of Verulamium; St Albans Cathedral Overleaf: Clock Tower

23 24 Gabriel Square is a modern classic, with traditional materials such as natural French limestone adding a sense of lineage to the contemporary form. The development is designed to complement St Albans exquisite architecture at the same time G A B R I E L as adopting a minimalist perspective. Its 80 homes appear in unity with the development as a whole and the central garden square brings permeability, contributing SQUARE towards the distinct sense of place. Gabriel Square’s beautiful urban gardens call to mind the classic examples of Georgian and Regency London, as well as the green spaces which characterise the city of St Albans.

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PURITY + MODERNITY

Conran and Partners’ design approach is crafted around modernist design principles. Responding seamlessly to the contemporary architecture, a sequence of harmonious spaces has been created using vertical and horizontal connections.

The Townhouses respond to vertical movement with a ‘Purist’ approach to the interior design. A warm, soft palette of natural materials and tactile surfaces reference the local stone of St Albans’ Cathedral and surrounding landscape.

With bold, graphic and clean lines, the apartments ‘Modernist’ design concept is structured around lateral living and the feeling of space, light and visual contrast.

Photo by Jean Cazals

Photo by Guy Montagu-Pollock

IMAGES from the top: German Gymnasium, Skylon, South Place Contemporary design Hotel, Conran and Partners design inspired by simplicity, studio quality, contrast and transparency

Simon Kincaid Conran + Partners

Photo by Conran and Partners

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IMAGES tleft to right: Torus by David Harber THE GARDEN located in the Central Square; Central square SQUARE CGI; Harmonic Series, art wall by David Harber REDEFINED at Gabriel Square; Armillary sundial by David Harber located in the The landscape combines high- with semi-mature trees and a mirrored landscaped garden quality contemporary and traditional Torus sculpture, along with natural play materials, with a beautiful selection elements for younger residents. Small of plants creating an attractive and front gardens at lower and ground elegant setting. The landscape works level separate the communal areas, with the architecture to create a with grasses and bamboos softening sequence of public and private spaces the more formal residential façades. that complement and enhance the To the rear, residences access either a residential location. At the heart of the private or communal garden via terraces. development is a central square, which Dynamic planting and public art by is designed to encourage both formal award-winning sculptor David Harber and informal relaxation. Here, you’ll find enrich the communal gardens, ensuring a backdrop of evergreens, open lawns maximum relaxation.

David Harber has created truly unique pieces perfectly tailored to their setting at Gabriel Square

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SHARED GARDEN WITH DAVID HARBER SCULPTURE

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CGI INDICATIVE ONLY P E R F E C TLY POSITIONED A distinctive city in its own right, St Albans is ideally located close to the major road networks of the M25, M1 and A1(M) providing easy access to London, the North and major international airports such as Gatwick, Luton and Heathrow.

Gabriel Square is located less than a 5 minute walk from St Albans City train station with journey times from 18 minutes to London St Pancras and 32 minutes to London Blackfriars.

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11 mins SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ST PANCRAS M25 5 mins 18 mins LUSSMANS FISH & GRILL WATFORD A1 RESTAURANT ABBEY VIEW GOLF FARRINGDON M1 BARNET M25 HIGH 12 mins AND ATHLETICS TRACK 26 mins WYCOMBE 6 mins WESTMINSTER LODGE LONDON BLACKFRIARS M40 LEISURE CENTRE NORTH ORBITAL ROAD, M1 32 mins 17 mins 6 mins LONDON CITY AIRPORT M25 VERULAMIUM PARK BEAUMONT SCHOOL 1 hr 5 mins 26 mins 8 mins GATWICK AIRPORT VERULAMIUM MUSEUM 1 hr 16 mins LONDON 8 mins Train times taken from St Albans City station LONDON BY BIKE WILLOWS FARM VILLAGE or *St Albans Abbey station M4 CITY 8 mins HEATHROW SOPWELL NUNNERY SANDRINGHAM SCHOOL 3 mins 9 mins M2 CHRISTOPHER PLACE ST ALBANS GIRLS SCHOOL 6 mins 9 mins M3 ABBEY VIEW ATHLETICS A1 GALLERIA M20 TRACK 14 mins M25 7 mins M25 J21A VERULAMIUM PARK 16 mins M26 9 mins M25 THE SNOW CENTRE ROMAN THEATRE OF 16 mins VERULAMIUM LUTON AIRPORT 11 mins 22 mins OAKLANDS EQUESTRIAN HEATHROW AIRPORT CENTRE 1 hr M23 14 mins

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ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH ATTRACTION LEISURE MUSEUMS & DINING EDUCATION 01. St Albans Clock tower 07. The Maltings CULTURE 20. Thompson 32. Aboyne Lodge School (Gabriel Bell) WATLING STREET 08. Christopher Place 14. Alban Arena 21. La Cosa Nostra, 33. St Albans High School 02. The Cathedral 09. Yoga Hall 15. Maltings Art Theatre Buongiorno Italia for girls 03. Verulamium Park 10. Oaklands Equestrian 16. Odyssey Cinema 22. Chez Mumtaj, Prime 34. Maple School Steak & Grill, Kimaya 04. Roman Theatre Centre 17. Abbey Theatre 35. Alban City School 23. Mumtaj Tandoori 05. Clarence Park 11. Verulam Golf Club 18. Verulamium Museum 36. Verulam Boys School 24. Jamie’s Italian 06. Sopwell Nunnery 12. Westminster Lodge 19. Trestle arts base 37. Beaumont School ST BARTHOLOMEW Leisure Centre 25. Cote Brasserie 38. Loreto College Girls R C CHURCH 13. Abbey View Golf & 26. Dylans – The Kings (Catholic) Athletics Track Arms, Thai Square 39. St Peter’s School 40 27. Lussmans 40. St Adrian’s Catholic COTTONMILL LANE 28. Carluccio’s, Wagamama 41. The Abbey CEVA 29. Loch Fyne Primary School 30. Freddies Restaurant 42. St Alban’s School 31. Bar Meze

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FROM ST ALBANS CITY TO THE CITY IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES

St Albans is served well by Thameslink routes into London, which offer easy access to Kentish Town, West Hampstead and, critically, City Thameslink. Farringdon and St Pancras are all within 30 minutes’ commute – ideal for busy workers.

With London so readily accessible, residents can complement their tranquil lifestyle with the hustle and bustle of the capital in just a short train journey. London’s iconic landmarks and world-renowned cultural institutions are conveniently close, meaning that residents really can have the best of both worlds.

IMAGES from the top: London Eye and the Houses of Parliament, Bond Street, Victoria and Albert Museum, St Paul’s Cathedral

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