Elizabeth Tower

Elizabeth Tower

Also known as Big Ben

Year

1859

Type

building

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The clock tower at the north end of Charles Barry's Palace of Westminster, with the perpendicular Gothic detail drawn by Augustus Pugin shortly before his collapse into illness in 1852. The tower is brick-built and clad in sand-colored Anst …

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