Queen's Gate

Queen's Gate

Queen's Gate is a major street in South Kensington, London. It runs from Kensington Road south, intersecting with Cromwell Road, and then on to Old Brompton Road.

From north to south, places of interest visible from Queen's Gate include the Royal Albert Hall, Imperial College London, Baden-Powell House, Dana Centre and the Natural History Museum. The entire road, being more of a boulevard, is approximately 1km in length with varying architecture in relation to the north central and south regions of the road. The north region, adjacent to Queen's Gate, a major southern gate of Kensington Gardens features grand terraced homes on the west side and independent designed attached buildings on the east side. The Huxley Building, built in honour of and named after biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, is the largest of many academic builldings based on the road itself, although other scientific buildings are also visible.

In the central region of the east side of Queen's Gate, major construction work has been ongoing at least since 1998, developing and creating major science research centres, the main one being the Darwin Centre, home to several dozen million animal specimen. The Darwin Centre phase II is currently under construction. both these buildings belong to and are of full use to The Natural History Museum. members of the public can visit the currently open Darwin Centre by appointment only.

Although there are churches in streets branching from Queen's Gate, the only one on the road is St Augustine's of Canterbury (Church of England). It is situated next to a major parking park, whose entrance is on Harrington Gardens, which is perpendicular to the road on both sides in the southern part. Although there are bars and restaurants in the several hotels on the road, the entire area is essentially residential with the nearest shops at least 100 metres away (e.g., on Gloucester Road).

The entire length of Queen's Gate is divided with a central parking reservation, which has done much to ease space on road sides and has no major effect on traffic, as the road is already large and of little wider citizen use. At the northern most part of the road, only metres away from the actual gate of Kensington Gardens, there is a statue of a man, Lord Napier, mounted upon a horse.

The buildings increase in architectural simplicity as one moves southward down the road. the nearest tube stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road. Two minor bus routes operate on the street.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Queen's Gate School — Infobox UK school name = Queen s Gate size = latitude = longitude = dms = motto = motto pl = established = approx = closed = c approx = type = Independent School religion = president = head label = Principal head = Mrs Rosalynd Kamaryc r head… …   Wikipedia

  • Somerset Queen's Gate Gardens Hotel London (London) — Somerset Queen s Gate Gardens Hotel London country: United Kingdom, city: London (South Kensington) Somerset Queen s Gate Gardens Hotel London Location Located a short walk away from the Gloucester Road Underground station, Somerset Queen s Gate… …   International hotels

  • Queen's Blade — クイーンズブレイド (Kuīnzu Bureido) Genre Comédie, Action, Ecchi Thèmes fantasy, amitié Manga : Queen s Blade Anthology Comic Type …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Queen's Blade — is a series of visual combat books published by Hobby Japan , based on the licensed works from Lost Worlds. First published in 2005, it features only female characters.Beginning with the 7th series, it uses all new game rules compatible with the… …   Wikipedia

  • Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital — Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Geography Location Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom Organisation Care syst …   Wikipedia

  • Queen of Demons — infobox Book | name = Queen of Demons title orig = translator = image caption = author = David Drake cover artist = Donato Giancola country = United States language = English series = Lord of the Isles genre = Epic fantasy novel publisher = Saint …   Wikipedia

  • Queen Anne's Mansions — was a block of flats in Petty France, Westminster, London at gbmapping|TQ296795. [Hamilton et al. National Building Studies, special report 33, pages 143 150. Published HMSO, London 1964] In 1873 Henry Alers Hankey acquired a site between St.… …   Wikipedia

  • Gate House Hotel — (Ниагара он зе Лейк,Канада) Категория отеля: Адрес: 142 Queen Street, L0S 1J0 Ниагара он з …   Каталог отелей

  • Queen Elizabeth II Dock — is a dock situated on the River Mersey at Eastham, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Construction of the dock began in 1949, adjacent to the entrance of the Manchester Ship Canal at Eastham Locks and opening directly onto the river. The dock was… …   Wikipedia

  • Queen Street, Oxford — Queen Street is a shopping street in central Oxford, England. It is one way (west to east) for buses and taxis, two way for cyclists outside main shopping hours, and forbidden for cars. It runs west from the centre of Oxford at Carfax. Here it… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”