Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower)
London, United Kingdom
- Drag Turn
- ←→ Turn 15°, with Shift 90°
- Space Lift the tiers apart
- 1–4 Light a tier, or point at it
- Esc Clear
Tiers
- 01Shaft (0–45 m)
- 02Clock stage (45–61 m)
- 03Belfry and lower roof (61–73 m)
- 04Ayrton Light and spire (73–96 m)73–97 m
About
Augustus Pugin designed the Elizabeth Tower for Charles Barry's Palace of Westminster. Big Ben is its 13.7-tonne Great Bell, one of five bells above four 7 m dials. The hands show London time. The palace crop and ornament sizes are photographic estimates. Interior plans are not shown.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Height
- 96 m
- Built
- 1843–1859
- Dials
- 4, each 7 m across, centered 54.9 m up
- Visitors
- approximately 1 million annual entrants to the parliamentary estate in a 2012 House of Commons report, not tower visitors