Queen's Gate
{{Short description|Street in South Kensington, London, England}}
{{Other uses|Queensgate (disambiguation){{!}}Queensgate}}
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File:Queen's Gate street in London, spring 2013 (3).JPG
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Queen's Gate is a street in South Kensington, London, England. It runs south from Kensington Gardens' Queen's Gate (the edge of which gardens are here followed by Kensington Road) to Old Brompton Road, intersecting Cromwell Road.
The street is mostly in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, but part of the east side is in the City of Westminster. The municipal boundary is the street centre between Kensington Road and Imperial College Road.
History
The street was built on land purchased by the Royal Commissioners for the Great Exhibition under an agreement dated August 1855 with Henry Browne Alexander, whose family owned the land through which the road was to pass, and William Jackson, a building speculator. The road was originally known as Albert's Road, but was officially changed to Queen's Gate in 1859.{{cite book|author1=Weinreb, Ben |author2=Hibbert, Christopher |title=The London Encyclopaedia |edition=reprint |year=1992 |publisher=Macmillan |page=650}}
Local Politics
Queen's Gate is also a three-councillor ward of Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with a population of 9,847 (2011 Census). The local Member of Parliament since 2019 has been Felicity Buchan.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688902&c=SW7+5NR&d=14&e=62&g=6331451&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1476544446630&enc=1|title=Kensington and Chelsea Ward population 2011|access-date=15 October 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics}}
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Places of interest
File:Queen's Gate, a major southern gate of Kensington Gardens, London spring 2013 (12).JPG
At the northern end of the road, near the actual gate to Kensington Gardens, is an equestrian statue of Field Marshal Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, erected in 1920.{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1492584&sort=4&search=all&criteria=north%20carlton&rational=q&recordsperpage=60|title=Statue of Robert Cornelis Napier, Baron Napier of Magdala|publisher=Pastscape|access-date=24 November 2013}}
From north to south, places of interest visible on the east side of Queen's Gate include the Royal Albert Hall,{{cite web| title=The Building| url=http://www.royalalberthall.com/uploadedFiles/About_The_Hall/assets/History_of_the_Royal_Albert_Hall.pdf| publisher=Royal Albert Hall| access-date=17 June 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626222518/http://www.royalalberthall.com/uploadedFiles/About_The_Hall/assets/History_of_the_Royal_Albert_Hall.pdf| archive-date=26 June 2011| df=dmy-all}} the Huxley Building of Imperial College London,{{cite web|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events-and-hospitality/venues/huxley-building/|title=Huxley Building |publisher=Imperial College London|access-date=13 December 2019}} the Dana Library and Research Centre{{cite web|title=Dana Library and Research Centre|url=http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/new_galleries/research_centre.aspx|website=www.sciencemuseum.org.uk|access-date=24 November 2016}} and the Natural History Museum.{{cite web|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/access-at-south-kensington.html|title=Access at South Kensington|publisher=Natural History Museum|access-date=13 December 2019}} Kensington Park School is just south of the Queen's Gate Gardens, opposite the museum.{{cite web |title=Location |url=https://www.kps.co.uk/location |website=www.kps.co.uk |access-date=1 July 2021}} The road also lends its name to a private girls' school, Queen's Gate School, which is situated on the road.[http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/queens-gate-school.html Queen's Gate School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427075334/http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/queens-gate-school.html |date=27 April 2009 }} on Good Schools Guide On the west side is Baden-Powell House.{{cite book | last = Wood | first = Edward | title = The story of B.-P.'s House|publisher = The Scout Association |date=April 1971 | location = London | isbn = 0-85165-016-3}}
The 100 Queen's Gate Hotel London, a historical building dating back to 1870, is also situated there.
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The only church is St Augustine's of Canterbury (Church of England).{{NHLE|desc=Church of St Augustine|num=1226161|access-date=8 November 2013}}
Five countries have embassies or high commissions in Queen's Gate: the Embassy of Iraq is at no. 21, the Bangladeshi High Commission at No. 28, the Royal Embassy of Thailand is at Nos. 29–30, the Embassy of Oman is at No. 167, and the Bulgarian Embassy is at Nos. 186–188.{{cite news | url= https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf | title=The London Diplomatic List | date=14 December 2013}}
The Security Service (MI5) was based at 73-75 Queen's Gate from 1919 to 1929.{{cite book|last=Andrew|first=Christopher|title=The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5|page=[https://archive.org/details/defenceofrealmau0000andr/page/117 117]|publisher=Allen Lane|year=2009|isbn=978-0-713-99885-6|url=https://archive.org/details/defenceofrealmau0000andr/page/117}}
The nearest tube stations are South Kensington and Gloucester Road.{{cite web|url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf |title=Tube map |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=29 April 2010}}
Notable people
- Benny Hill, comedian and actor (d. 1992){{cite web|url=http://www.memorialmatters.com/memorials.php?page=Alfred-Hill§ion=bio|title=Tribute to Alfred Hawthorne Hill on MemorialMatters.com|work=memorialmatters.com|access-date=5 July 2015}}
- Dennis Gabor, physicist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1979){{cite news|url=http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/blue_plaque_for_dennis_gabor_inventor_of/63353.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225540/http://www.gov-news.org/gov/uk/news/blue_plaque_for_dennis_gabor_inventor_of/63353.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=2 December 2013|title=Blue Plaque for Dennis Gabor, inventor of Holograms|publisher=Government News|date=1 June 2006|access-date=23 November 2013}}
- Gerald Hocken Knight, compositor; organist of St Augustine's church, 1931-37 (d. 1979){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DYZCgAAQBAJ&q=Gerald+Hocken+Knight+st+augustine&pg=PA114|title=Admissions to Peterhouse October 1911 - December 1930|first= E.|last= Ansell|page=114|year=1939|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107553897}}
- Gilbert Ledward, sculptor (d. 1960)'Ledward, Gilbert', in Who Was Who 1951–1960 (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, {{ISBN|0-7136-2598-8}})
- E. Beresford Chancellor, author known for his works on the history of London, died at no. 31 (d. 1937){{cite web|url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar/GetImgSrc?filePath=%2F1937%2FC%2F000730_champion_1937.Png |year=1937 |title=Probate Calendar|page=729|access-date=13 December 2019}}
- Sir Richard Baggallay, barrister, MP then Lord Justice of Appeal, of no. 55 (d. 1888){{cite web|title='Domestic Buildings after 1851: The occupants', in Survey of London: Volume 38, South Kensington Museums Area, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1975)|pages= 317–324|publisher=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol38/pp317-324 |access-date= 13 December 2019}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.bhclondon.org.uk/ Bangladeshi High Commission website]
- [http://www.thaiembassyuk.org.uk/ Royal Thai Embassy website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801082805/http://www.omanembassy.org.uk/ Omani Embassy website]
- [http://www.bulgarianembassy-london.org/ Bulgarian Embassy website]
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Category:1859 establishments in England
Category:Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea