![]() The designers were the lawyer and amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison, and George Airy, the Astronomer Royal. The clock’s movement is famous for its reliability.At the base of each clock dial in gilt letters is the Latin inscription:ĭOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM, which means “O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First”. The clock dials are set in an iron frame 23 feet (7.0 m) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window. Pugin decided to make a clock with four faces – one on each side. ![]() Augustus Pugin planned the clock and dials that is part of the tower. ![]() ![]() The interior volume of the tower is 164,200 cubic feet (4,650 cubic metres).
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