Queen’s Tower
The Queen's Tower is a 287-foot tower topped with a copper-covered dome. It is situated in the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London, England, just north of the Imperial College Road.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: tower in the City of Westminster, London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Collcutt Tower”, “Queen’s Tower, London”, and “The Queen’s Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Science Museum and Natural History Museum.
Science Museum
Museum
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The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2,817,852 visitors in 2025. Science Museum is situated 380 feet southeast of Queen’s Tower.
Natural History Museum
Museum
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Natural History Museum is situated 720 feet south of Queen’s Tower.
Royal Albert Hall
Theater building
Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. Royal Albert Hall is situated 980 feet north of Queen’s Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Kensington and Brompton.
South Kensington
Suburb
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Kensington is a district at the West End of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton.
Brompton
Suburb
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Brompton, sometimes called Old Brompton, is an area in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex.
Knightsbridge
Suburb
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Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End.
Queen’s Tower
- Categories: observation tower, building, and tourism
- Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49835° or 51° 29′ 54″ northLongitude
-0.17689° or 0° 10′ 37″ westInception
1893Height
287 feet (88 metres)Open location code
9C3XFRXF+86OpenStreetMap ID
way 788526940OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q7270127
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Queen’s Tower” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “女王塔 (倫敦)”
- Chinese: “女王塔”
- Chinese: “皇后塔”
- Russian: “Башня Королевы”
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Highlights include Queen’s Lawn and Dangoor Plaza.
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