Hyde Park Corner When Kensington and Knightsbridge were small communities separate from London, the toll gate at the Park was the entrance to London from the West. With the building of Buckingham Palace in the 1820's came the construction of the Constitution Arch by Decimus Burton who also designed the Hyde Park Screen as the entrance to Hyde Park. On the island upon which the arch stands is a bronze statue of the Duke of Wellington and memorials to the Machine Gun Corps and the Royal Artillery by Charles Sergeant Jagger. Opposite is the Lanes borough Hotel formerly St. Georges Hospital