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The second "Big Ben" (centre) and the Quarter Bells from The Illustrated News of the World, 4 December 1858 Big Ben. The main bell, officially known as the "Great Bell" but better known as Big Ben, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. It sounds an E-natural. [75]
In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3] The oldest surviving turret clock formerly part of a clock tower in Europe is the Salisbury Cathedral clock , completed in 130.
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@A.D.Hope Calling "Big Ben" as the clock tower seems wrong when sources are mixed, some say "Big Ben" followed by "the clock tower housing Big Ben". So I think it is not as truthful to call just the tower specifically/primarily Big Ben, but is merely the most known thing of/called Big Ben but not is Big Ben. The current lead avoids this ...