Elizabeth tower, formerly known as Bell Tower and commonly known as Big Ben, is located on the Thames in London, England. It is the clock tower attached to Westminster Palace, the British Parliament Building, and is a landmark building in London. Big Ben in London, England, is attached to the bell tower of the British Parliament Hall. It is designed according to the Victorian Gothic style and installed on the 95-meter-high bell tower on the east side of the North Parliament Building in Westminster Bridge.
The dial of the clock is embedded in an iron frame with a diameter of 23 feet (7 meters), supporting 365,438+02 opals, which looks like a colored window. The periphery of the dial is decorated with gold plating. Designed by Augustus Pugin and built by Edward Dent and his son Frederick, the tower is one of the most famous Gothic buildings in the world.
Name evolution
1859, built in the northeast corner of the main building of parliament, was supervised by Sir Benjamin Hall, then Minister of Engineering. To commemorate his achievements, it was named Big Ben, which is Benjamin's nickname. After the bell was cast, the question of what name to give it puzzled British monarchs and ministers. A minister said calmly, "Let's call it Big Ben." It turned out that the nickname of the minister of bell casting was "Ben", and later everyone called this bell "Big Ben", which is Big Ben.
In 20 12, Tobias Ellwood, a member of the British Conservative Party, proposed to change its name to elizabeth tower to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne. On June 2nd of the same year, 33/kloc-0 members, including senior members of the three major political parties, supported the proposal to change the bell tower into elizabeth tower.