And it was built quickly; it opened in just six months and the royal couple moved in on Christmas Eve Queen Victoria grew up here, and Diana, Princess of Wales was a later resident. The statue is a reminder that William III made his home at Kensington Palace, hoping that it would help his asthma to be further away from the River Thames.
The statue was designed by Heinrich Bauke while the base was created by Sir Aston Webb, who also designed the gilded statue of Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace.
At the edge of Broad Walk, just east of Kensington Palace, is a marble statue of a youthful Queen Victoria holding a sceptre. The statue was designed in by Victoria's daughter Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll and depicts the queen as she appeared at her coronation in One of Kensington Gardens' most popular features is this sculpture made from the trunk of a hollow oak tree.
The tree trunk is decorated with small figures of animals, elves, and fairies. The sculpture was created by Ivor Innes in and was given by Lady Fortescue. The tree trunk comes from Richmond Park. The tree featured in the inside cover art for Pink Floyd's album Ummagumma.
It was restored in after a campaign led by comedian Spike Milligan. It is now protected by a metal cage. This elongated lake runs south from the Italian Gardens and then turns east to become The Serpentine as it flows into Hyde Park.
This elegant bridge, erected in by the engineer John Rennie, carries West Carriage Drive over the junction of The Serpentine and Long Water and marks the boundary between the two parks. There are two public art galleries within the park. Across Long Water stands the original Serpentine Gallery, opened in It takes the form of eight stone benches surrounding stone plaques including one in the shape of a tree. On the southern boundary of the park looking across to the Royal Albert Hall stands the Albert Memorial , Queen Victoria's monument to her consort, Prince Albert, who died in of typhoid.
The grieving queen called upon the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott to create a striking memorial loosely modelled on the Eleanor Crosses erected by another grieving monarch five centuries earlier. The result is an exquisite example of Victorian Gothic architecture. In fact, its official name is the Prince Consort National Memorial, but that doesn't stop everyone from native Londoners to foreign visitors from calling it the Albert Memorial!
A gilded figure of the Prince Consort sits within an ornately carved canopy. He holds a catalogue for the Great Exhibition of , which he championed. Bronze statues of angels cling to the top of the memorial while marble sculptures representing the continents of Europe, Asia, America, and Africa stand at the corners.
Around the monument's base runs a frieze depicting famous artists, sculptors, musicians, architects, and poets, a reminder of Prince Albert's support for the arts. The location is no accident, for it is here on the shore of Long Water that Peter lands his birdnest boat in the story ' The Little White Bird '. Barrie loved Kensington Gardens and was inspired by the setting. He lived locally and walked frequently through the park. He personally commissioned the sculptor Sir George Frampton to create a statue of Peter Pan, which was erected here in It shows Peter blowing a pipe, surrounded by rabbits, mice, squirrels, and fairies.
One of the most popular areas of the park is an Italianate water garden on the northern edge of the park near Lancaster Gate. It is modelled after the royal couple's gardens at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The garden is based around four pools with central floral sculptures of Carrara marble. Dotted around the garden are statues and neoclassical urns. On the east side of the Italian Garden is a memorial to Edward Jenner , who pioneered the use of vaccines to eradicate smallpox.
The statue originally stood in Trafalgar Square but was moved to Kensington Gardens in after objections from anti-vaccinationists. Just under the gable you can see Queen Anne's royal coat of arms. The Alcove was moved to its location beside Lancaster Gate in at the expense of a London builder named Cowley because it was thought to be ugly and attract ' undesirable persons '.
It was used for a time as a storeroom for the park's gardeners. It was given by Moore as a gift to the nation in The sculpture takes the form of an arch made from seven blocks of Italian travertine weighing a combined 37 tonnes.
The sculpture had to be disassembled in due to structural instability issues but was restored and re-erected in its original spot in These formal cast-iron gates stand at the southern end of West Carriage Drive, just north of Kensington Gore.
They were moved here in while the neighbouring Albert Memorial was being built. Each gate has a gilded finial of a crown, representing peace, while the stone pillars at each side of the gates are topped with stags' head vases, a reminder of the park's origins as a deer park. The design is thought to be by William Kent , one of the most famous landscape architects of 18th-century England. As you head back down, turn left and follow the path above Holland Park Theatre, turn right and follow the path back to High Street Kensington, where you began.
The loop is about 1. If river running is more your thing, then a jaunt along Chelsea Embankment and the Thames will get your blood pumping.
Run up to Chelsea Bridge, cross over and then turn right into Battersea Park, keep the Thames on your right following the path up to Albert Bridge Road, cross over the bridge, turn right back to where you started.
The distance from The Kensington to Chelsea Bridge is 1. Blog Kensington Running Routes. Tuesday, 24, January Filed under: The Westbury facebook twitter pinterest mail.
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