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St Giles' Cathedral
St Giles' Cathedral, formally the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is a Church of Scotland parish church on the Royal Mile, founded in 1124 and known for its crown spire.
St Helens R.F.C.
St Helens R.F.C. (the Saints) is a rugby league club founded in 1873 in St Helens, England, playing in Super League at the BrewDog Stadium; record ten Super League titles, three World Club Challenges, and 69 total trophies.
St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens, Merseyside: a Liverpool City Region metropolitan borough of about 183,200 people, historically built on glassmaking (from 1773) and coal, now undergoing major town centre regeneration while ranking among England's more deprived areas.
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia) is a Cornish seaside town and former pilchard and tin port, famed for its beaches, the Tate St Ives gallery, the Barbara Hepworth Museum, the 1887 St Erth branch line, and acute second-home housing pressure.
St James' Park
St James' Park, Newcastle United's home since 1892, a 52,719-capacity city-centre stadium in Newcastle upon Tyne; historic Leitch-era ground, expanded 1998-2000, sold to PZ Holdings for £172.1m with leaseback.
St James's
St James's is a historic central London district in the City of Westminster, bounded by Piccadilly, Haymarket, St James's Park and Green Park; founded from Henry Jermyn's 1661 St James's Square development, known as Clubland and for Jermyn Street menswear.
St James's Hospital
St James's Hospital names several institutions: a scheduled medieval hospital monument at Horning, Norfolk; Dunwich's leper hospital chapel; the Trinity College Dublin teaching hospital; Leeds's St James's University Hospital; and Portsmouth's former asylum, now an NHS hospital.
St James's Palace
St James's Palace is a Tudor royal palace in Westminster, London, built by Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536 and today the official seat of the British court.
St James's Park
St James's Park is London's oldest Royal Park, a c 32 ha Grade I registered park in Westminster formed under Henry VIII, redesigned by Andre Mollet for Charles II in 1660 and remodelled by John Nash in the 1820s.
St James's University Hospital
St James's University Hospital ("Jimmy's") is a large NHS teaching hospital on Beckett Street, Leeds, run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; it grew from an 1840s workhouse, expanded in the 1970s, and houses the Leeds Cancer Centre in the Bexley Wing.
St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, Cambridge (College of St John the Evangelist), founded 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort; one of Cambridge's largest colleges, home to the Bridge of Sighs, Gilbert Scott Chapel, and alumni including Wordsworth and Dirac.
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is an affluent residential district in the City of Westminster, north London (NW8), developed by the Eyre family from 1804 as London's first garden suburb, home to Lord's Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Studios.
St Johnstone F.C.
St Johnstone F.C., Perth-based Scottish football club founded 1884/1885, plays at McDiarmid Park. Won Scottish Cup 2014 and 2021, League Cup 2021, and the 2025-26 Championship under Simo Valakari.
St Kilda Football Club
St Kilda Football Club, the Saints, an AFL club founded April 2, 1873, VFA foundation member 1877 and VFL founding member 1897; one premiership, the 1966 one-point Grand Final win over Collingwood on Barry Breen's famous point.
St Kilda Road
St Kilda Road is Melbourne's grand tree-lined boulevard, running south from Princes Bridge toward St Kilda. Once Baxter's Track, it became the ceremonial route past the Shrine of Remembrance, lost most of its mansions after 1956 rezoning, and is heritage-listed.
St Kilda, Scotland
St Kilda is a volcanic archipelago about 100 miles west of mainland Scotland, uninhabited since the 1930 evacuation and protected as the UK's only mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner southern beachside suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, 7.2 km from the CBD, with 19,490 residents at the 2021 Census. Named after the schooner Lady of St Kilda in 1842, it became a city in 1890 and joined the City of Port Phillip in 1994.
St Leger Stakes
St Leger Stakes, Britain's oldest Classic horse race, first run 24 September 1776 at Doncaster; Group 1 over 1m6f115y for three-year-old colts and fillies, final leg of the British Triple Crown, last won by Nijinsky in 1970.
St Lucia Arts Guild
The St Lucia Arts Guild was a Saint Lucian theater company founded in Castries in 1950 by the twins Derek and Roderick Walcott, staging Caribbean drama for 21 years.
St Margaret's, Westminster
St Margaret's, Westminster is a 12th-century Anglican church on Parliament Square, London, next to Westminster Abbey. Built for local worshippers so monks were undisturbed, it has been the House of Commons' parish church since 1614 and part of the 1987 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
St Mark's Basilica
St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco) is the cathedral of Venice and seat of the Patriarch of Venice, begun in 1063 and famous for its Byzantine domes and glass mosaics.
St Mark's Clock
St Mark's Clock is the astronomical clock on the Clock Tower at the entrance to the Merceria in St Mark's Square, Venice, inaugurated in 1499.
St Mark's Hospital
St Mark's Hospital is a London hospital specializing entirely in intestinal and colorectal medicine. Founded in 1835 by Frederick Salmon, it is now based at Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal.
St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields is an 18th-century Neoclassical Church of England church on the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square, London, designed by James Gibbs and built 1722 to 1726.
St Martin's Church, Canterbury
St Martin's Church, Canterbury, also known as the Church of St. Martin, is an Anglican parish church reputed to be the oldest in England, where Queen Bertha worshipped before 597.
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School (SMRT) is a Church of England voluntary aided comprehensive in central Bristol for ages 11-18, formed by a 1967 merger, with a large sixth form of about 700 students and Good Ofsted grades from 2025.
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985: Ottonian Romanesque churches founded by Bishop Bernward, with the 1015 bronze doors, the Bernward column, and the painted Tree of Jesse ceiling.
St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney
St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney: Catholic school founded 1824 by Fr John Therry beside St Mary's Cathedral; choir school of Australia's oldest choir (1818); Christian Brothers 1911–2015; Sydney Catholic Schools co-ed K–12 from 2025.
St Mary's Church (United Kingdom)
St Mary's Church, a widespread United Kingdom church dedication; notable examples include Southampton (1878-84, G.E. Street, gutted in WWII, rebuilt 1954-6), Grade I High Offley, Sandwich, and CCT-cared-for Akenham and Luddenham.
St Mary's Hospital, London
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London: NHS acute hospital founded 1845, opened 1851, run by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; home of London's busiest major trauma centre, Fleming's penicillin discovery, and a planned £2.2bn 800-bed rebuild.