Imperial College - South Kensington Campus

The Queen's Lawn is a green

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ed area situated at the centre of

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campus, next to the Queen's Tower and immediately to the north of Imperial College Road. It provides an open space of 1,600 sq metres, and is surrounded by the Abdus Salam Library, and the Sherfield administration,

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, 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 Felix 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. A diagonal path was built across the lawn in 2021. File:1812 concert queens lawn imperial college.jpg,

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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. The piece commemorates Russia's successful defense against the ...

'' 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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