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James Watt (1832 by Chantrey), foreground, looking east at Glasgow City Chambers; George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is named after King George III. George Square was laid out in 1781, part of the innovative Georgian central grid plan that initially spanned from Stockwell Street east to Buchanan Street. This grid masterplan across the lands of Meadowflats and eventually as far west as Blythswood Hill, was largely the work of the notable contemporary architects James Barry, James Craig and James Gillespie Graham. Although not executed, Barry’s ideas (the earliest plan commissioned by the Corporation, 1772) seem to have inspired the grid of streets centered on a large square (George Square). Today the east side of the square is dominated by the ornate Glasgow City Chambers. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/2/2012)