Victoria Tower (disambiguation)

Last updated April 14, 2019

Victoria Tower is the tallest tower of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.

The Victoria Tower is the square tower at the south-west end of the Palace of Westminster in London, facing south and west onto Black Rod's Garden and Old Palace Yard. At 98.5 metres (323 ft), it is slightly taller than the more famous Elizabeth Tower at the north end of the Palace. It houses the Parliamentary Archives in archive conditions meeting the BS 5454 standard, on 12 floors. All 14 floors of the building were originally linked via a single wrought-iron Victorian staircase of 553 steps, of which five floors survive.

Victoria Tower may also refer to:

Victoria Tower (Adelaide), the clock tower on the Adelaide GPO
Victoria Tower (Canada), former part of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa
Victoria Tower (Guernsey), an historic landmark in Guernsey
Victoria Tower (Hong Kong), a historic building in Hong Kong
Victoria Tower (Liverpool), a clock tower by Salisbury Dock in Liverpool, England
Victoria Tower (Pakistan), in Jacobabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Victoria Tower, part of the Municipal Buildings complex in Greenock, Scotland
Victoria Tower, on Castle Hill, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
Victoria Towers, a large residential development in Hong Kong
Victoria Tower (Stockholm), a hotel in Stockholm, the tallest in Northern Europe

The Victoria Tower was the prominent main bell tower of the original Centre Block parliament building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The 55-metre-high (180 ft) tower was the centre piece of Parliament Hill that was constructed from 1859 to 1866 by Thomas Fuller. It was destroyed during the great fire of the Centre Block on 3 February 1916. Its replacement, the Peace Tower, was built on the same location but the design and height were radically changed. The original tower bore some similarities to the tower at the Parliament Building (Quebec).

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

Jacobabad is a city in Sindh, Pakistan, serving as both the capital city of Jacobabad District and the administrative centre of Jacobabad Taluka, an administrative subdivision of the district. The city itself is subdivided into 8 Union Councils. Sitting close to the provincial boundaries of Sindh and Balochistan, Jacobabad became a city on the site of an existing village (Khangarh), and is crossed by the Pakistan Railway and many main roads of the province.

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