Imperial College - South Kensington Campus

The Queen's Lawn is a green

lawn A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes. L ...

ed area situated at the centre of

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

South Kensington South Kensington, nicknamed Little Paris, is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with ...

campus, next to the

Queen's Tower Queen's Tower can refer to: * Queen's Tower, Brisbane, residential skyscraper in Brisbane, Australia * Queen's Tower (London), a building of Imperial College London * Queen's Tower (Serpieri), a former royal estate near Athens * Queen's Tower (Sh ...

and immediately to the north of

Imperial College Road Imperial College Road is a tree-lined road in South Kensington, London, England. It runs east–west with Queen's Gate to the west and Exhibition Road to the east. The road forms part of the boundary between Royal Borough of Kensington and Che ...

. It provides an open space of 1,600 sq metres, and is surrounded by the Central Library, and the Sherfield administration,

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

, and Skempton buildings. It is often the site of college events, including student bands, fairs, and balls, as well as student activism. In April 2006, the Imperial College student newspaper

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reported that the college was seeking permission of

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to develop part of the lawn into a three-storey modular building, however this has not come to pass. A weekly farmer's market is held on Tuesdays, and Queen's Lawn was also the site of a world record attempt for the largest jelly mosaic. File:1812 concert queens lawn imperial college.jpg,

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's ''

1812 Overture ''The Year 1812, Solemn Overture'', Op. 49, popularly known as the ''1812 Overture'', is a concert overture in E major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to commemorate the successful Russian defense against Napoleon ...

'' with bells and cannon fire, performed annually on the Queen's Lawn. The base of the Queen's Tower can be seen at the top of the picture File:Central Library over Queen's Lawn.jpg, The Central Library, the college's main academic library, overlooks Queen's Lawn. The top two floors were built as part of a modern extension to the library File:Sherfield Building over Queen's Lawn from Imperial College Road.jpg, Sherfield Building, the central administrative building, from across the lawn. On the first floor are the junior and senior common rooms File:Queen's Lawn and Imperial College Road looking west.jpg, Imperial College Road runs along the south side of the lawn. The Chemistry Building is across the road

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