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St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham: Anglican cathedral, formerly the parish church of St Philip, designed by Thomas Archer 1709, consecrated 1715, cathedral of the Diocese of Birmingham since 1905, Grade I listed English Baroque building with Burne-Jones windows.

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, also known as St Sepulchre's, Holborn, is an Anglican parish church on Holborn Viaduct in the City of London, first recorded in 1137.

St Stephen's Green

St Stephen's Green: 9-hectare Victorian public park in central Dublin, enclosed 1663–1664, redesigned by William Sheppard for Lord Ardilaun and reopened 27 July 1880; lake, fountains, 750 trees, 1916 Rising site.

St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Lambeth, London, opposite the Palace of Westminster, with 840 beds and a history dating back to 1173.

St Trinian's (film)

St Trinian's (2007) is a British comedy directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson, reviving Ronald Searle's cartoon-based girls' school film series; Rupert Everett and Colin Firth star in a heist plot to save the school from bankruptcy.

St Winefride's Well

St Winefride's Well (Ffynnon Wenfrewi) is a medieval holy well and Catholic pilgrimage shrine in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, famed as Britain's only shrine with unbroken pilgrimage since before the Reformation, with a ca 1500-10 Perpendicular chapel built under Margaret Beaufort.

St Winifred's School Choir

St Winifred's School Choir, from St Winifred's RC Primary School, Stockport, recorded from 1972 and topped the 1980 UK Christmas chart with "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" on MFP.

St-Alban-les-Eaux

St-Alban-les-Eaux, a Loire commune near Roanne, France, site of a Gallo-Roman water sanctuary with monumentalised springs in use from about 30 BC to Late Antiquity, recorded in Pleiades as temple and shrine (BAtlas 17 B1).

St-Andéol (France)

St-Andéol (France): several French communes, villages, and chapels named after Saint Andéol, martyr of the Vivarais (traditionally 208), including Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Saint-Andéol-le-Château, Saint-Andéol-de-Vals, and the Mazan quarter.

St-Andéol-le-Château

Saint-Andéol-le-Château (Sent-Anduér), former commune in the Rhône, France, 20 km southwest of Lyon; medieval fortified village, seigneurie of Lyon's canons from 984; merged into Beauvallon on 1 January 2018.

St-André-sur-Cailly

St-André-sur-Cailly, a Seine-Maritime commune near Rouen, France, site of the Bout Levet Gallo-Roman theater (79 m cavea), fanum sanctuaries, and a secondary agglomeration, discovered 1817, excavated 1870 by abbé Cochet.

St-Aubin-sur-Gaillon

St-Aubin-sur-Gaillon, a commune in the Eure, Normandy, on the left bank of the Seine near Gaillon, known for its Gallo-Roman sanctuary of three temples in an 80 m × 58 m peribole, excavated 1901–1914 by A.-G. Poulain, plus a coin hoard and medieval church.

St-Aubin-sur-Mer

Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer (Calvados, INSEE 14562), Normandy seaside commune on the Côte de Nacre; Cap Romain Gallo-Roman site, mother-goddess statue, Juno Beach D-Day sector; distinct from the Seine-Maritime namesake (76564).

St-Béat (France)

Saint-Béat (Saint-Béat-Lez), Haute-Garonne, France: Pyrenean village on the Garonne, ancient Passus Lupi, famed for white marble quarries, 12th-century castle and Romanesque Saint-Privat church, royal city 1454, 'Clef de France'.

St-Beauzély

St-Beauzély (Sent-Bauzéli) is a commune in Aveyron, France, on the Causse Rouge near Millau; 624 inhabitants (2020), a 12th-century château housing a rural-life museum, the Grandmont priory of Comberoumal, and 10 dolmens.

St-Boil

St-Boil (Saint-Boil, Saône-et-Loire) is a Gallo-Roman limestone quarry at En Noizeret, discovered in 1971, worked mainly in the 1st century AD, classified monument historique on 6 November 1973, with inscriptions and a sculpture workshop.

St-Bresson

St-Bresson: ancient mining place in Gard, France, Pleiades place 148179, Barrington Atlas 15 B2, a copper-lead-silver mine of the medieval Hierle district; distinct from the Saint-Bresson commune in Haute-Saone.

St-Christophe-le-Chaudry

Saint-Christophe-le-Chaudry is a commune of about 96 inhabitants in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, central France, known for a Gallo-Roman sandstone quarry that made hand querns.

St-Cloud-en-Dunois

St-Cloud-en-Dunois, formerly Saint-Cloud (until 14 January 1983), a former commune of Eure-et-Loir, France, now part of Villemaury, site of a Gallo-Roman villa (BAtlas 11 B4) and a 2024-published fanum with marble oscilla.

ST-elevation myocardial infarction

ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a heart attack producing ST-segment elevation on the ECG, making up 25% to 40% of US heart attacks and requiring reperfusion within 12 hours.

St-Emilan

St-Emilan (Saint-Émiland, Saône-et-Loire, France): ancient Gallia Lugdunensis site with Gallo-Roman limestone quarries on its plateau; Barrington Atlas Map 18 entry, quarry no. 190 in the Oxford Roman Economy database.

St-Etienne-de-Candau

St-Etienne-de-Candau, Les Angles (Gard), France: excavated 1961–1965 by Gagnière and Granier; a Roman villa with fanum reused as a 5th–7th century paleo-Christian and Frankish cemetery, mound later destroyed by a road.

St-Félix-de-Pallières

St-Félix-de-Pallières, a small commune in the Gard, Occitanie, France, on the Cévennes border; site of the former Croix-de-Pallières lead-zinc mines (closed 1971) and of lasting heavy-metal soil contamination and Umicore remediation litigation.

St-Galmier

St-Galmier (Saint-Galmier), a commune in the Loire, France, at the meeting of the Monts du Lyonnais and the Forez plain. Gallo-Roman baths (Vicus Auditiacus), castle of the Counts of Forez, flamboyant Gothic church, and the Badoit mineral-water springs.

St-Georges-du-Bois

St-Georges-du-Bois (Charente-Maritime, near Surgères) is a Gallo-Roman site with the smallest known amphitheater in Gaul (62 x 53 m hexadecagon), found aerially in 1976, part of a ~30 ha ancient agglomeration excavated since 2023 by Bastien Gissinger.

St-Germain-les-Corbeil

St-Germain-les-Corbeil (Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil), Essonne commune on the Seine's right bank and a Pleiades villa site (BAtlas 11 C4, 30 BC-AD 640), with Mousterian, Gallo-Roman, and medieval archaeology.

St-Gervais

St-Gervais: Geneva right-bank district and its Temple de Saint-Gervais, on the oldest settled site in the canton (c. 4000 BC), rebuilt 1430-50; also French communes of the same name.

St-Goussard

St-Goussard is the Pleiades gazetteer name for Saint-Goussaud, a village in the Creuse department of France whose hill, the Puy-de-Jouer, carries a Gallo-Roman temple and small theater.

St-Hermentaire

Saint-Hermentaire: chapel and former priory southwest of Draguignan, Var, France, over a 6th-century church with baptistery and a Gallo-Roman villa; priory of Saint-Pons, Nice, from 1235 to the Revolution.

St-Hilaire

St-Hilaire (Saint-Hilaire) names many places in France and Quebec, including the Essonne commune first recorded in 1164, the Mont Saint-Hilaire mineral locality near Montreal, and the Aude abbey village.