Queen's Gate

Queen's Gate is a street in South Kensington, London, England. It runs south from the Kensington Gardens Queen's Gate in Kensington Road, intersects with Cromwell Road, and then on to Old Brompton 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 follows Queen's Gate between Kensington Road and Imperial College Road.

Queen's Gate is also a ward of the Royal London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The population at the 2011 Census was 9,847.

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.

At the northern end of the road, near the actual gate to Kensington Gardens, is an equestrian statue of Lord Napier. 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 road also lends its name to an independent girls' school, Queen's Gate School, which is situated on the road. The road is a like a boulevard in style. It is approximately 1 km in length with architectural styles varying along its length. The northern section, by the gate to 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 biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, is the largest of many academic buildings on the road itself, and others are also visible from the road.

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