Kew: A year at Kew: Places: Pagoda Vista zone


	• Crocus carpet • Flag Pole • Marianne North & Shirley Sherwood Galleries • King William's Temple • Evolution House • Temperate House • Pavilion • Lion Gate • Pagoda & Pagoda Vista • Japanese Gateway & Landscape

Pagoda Vista Zone

The area around the Pagoda focuses, naturally enough, on the structure itself. The Pagoda is the most important surviving architectural element of William Chambers' designs. Pagoda Vista is also a major axis in the Nesfield/Burton landscape design, lined by paired plantings of broadleaved trees, flanked by evergreens.

There are other oriental influences with Chokushi-Mon, the Japanese Gateway and Landscape.

Decimus Burton's Temperate House is the keynote building in this area. It is the largest public glasshouse at Kew and the world's largest surviving Victorian glasshouse.

The adjacent Evolution House takes visitors through millions of years of plant evolution - an intriguing journey made more 'real' with its mixture of models, landscapes and planting.
Nestled in woodland near the garden wall by Kew Road is the Marianne North Gallery, which houses an important botanical art collection by the exceptionally talented Marianne North, who gave Kew not only all of her paintings, but also the gallery to house them.

Another highly visible landmark in this zone is Kew's famous Flag Pole, near the hidden beauty of Berberis Dell.

Three historic decorative structures remain here:- the Ruined Arch actually built as a fashionable mock ruin; the Temple of Bellona and King William's Temple.