Description
St James’s Park includes The Mall and Horse Guards Parade, and is surrounded by landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and Whitehall.The park’s famous flower beds at the front of Buckingham Palace are a familiar backdrop to pageants including Trooping the Colour, as well as state visits and other ceremonial occasions.Enjoy impressive views of the lake and fountain from St James’s Café, watch the resident pelicans at feeding time, or while away a sunny afternoon in a deckchair.
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Features
- Free
- Host birthday parties: No
Features
Toilets, accessible toilets and baby changing facilities.
Pelicans
As custodians of large open spaces in London, we remain very concerned about the current UK wide outbreak of avian influenza. They are unable to prevent wild birds from getting the virus, but we are carrying out enhanced monitoring of our waterbodies to check for signs of illness and to ensure that any carcasses are removed immediately. They are following all instructions issued by the Animal Plant and Health Agency and as a result, our colony of pelicans in St James’s Park are being moved to their enclosure on Duck Island.
St. James’s Café
St James’s Café is an oasis in the heart of St James’s Park. Surrounded by a rich abundance of flora and fauna, enjoy stunning views of the lake and fountain from the contemporary roof terrace, external seating areas or looking through the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows.Tuck yourself away with a cup of Benugo’s award winning coffee or loose leaf tea. Indulge in such British classics as scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast, a delicious snack from one of the sandwich and salad deli offerings or lunch from our hot counters. Alternatively just kick back and enjoy a sunny afternoon with a glass of chilled wine.
The Queen Victoria Memorial
The Queen Victoria Memorial is located in front of Buckingham Palace and comprises the Dominion Gates (Canada Gate, Australia Gate and South and West Africa Gates), the Memorial Gardens and a vast central monument commemorating the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.The monument is 25 metres high and uses 2,300 tonnes of white Carrara marble. As well as Victoria, there are statues representing courage, constancy, victory, charity, truth and motherhood.
Trooping the Colour
Once a year, to mark the Queen's official birthday Trooping the Colour is held on Horse Guards Parade in St James's Park. This colourful military parade by the Household Division is from two older military ceremonies - 'Trooping the Colour' and 'Mounting the Queen's Guard', both of which began during the early eighteenth century.
Gardens and landscapes
The Buckingham Palace flower beds, or Memorial Gardens, were created in 1901 for a memorial to Queen Victoria.
Horse Guards Parade
Horse Guards Parade is the ceremonial parade ground in St James's Park and is the scene of Trooping the Colour on the Queen's official birthday in June. Horse Guards is the building with a clock tower over an archway, and remains the official entrance to St James's and Buckingham Palace. Horse Guards dates from the eighteenth century and was designed by William Kent, the then Chief Architect to George II.
0.53 miles
