What is the Big Ben history?
Glad to be able to help you on this matter, Here’s everything I think that you need to know. The tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry’s design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 October 1834. However, although Barry was the chief architect of the palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall. The design for Big Ben was, in fact, Pugin’s last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry’s last visit to him to collect the drawings: “I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful” (Rosemary Hill, God’s Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) p 482). The tower is designed in Pugin’s celebrated Gothic revival style, and is 96.3 metres (315.9 ft) high. The first 61 metre
