This is a list of the tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage.
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Warwick Castle | Warwick, Warwickshire | 45 m (148 ft) | 1360 | [1] Guy's tower rises 39 m (128 ft), Caesar's Tower rises 45 m (148 ft) but from a lower level. | |
2 | Rochester Castle | Rochester, Kent | 38 m (125 ft) | 1127 | [2] 34.5 m (113 ft) to parapet, 38 m (125 ft) to turrets. | |
3 | Caernarfon Castle | Caernarfon, Gwynedd | 35 m (115 ft) | 1330 | [3] | |
4 | Tattershall Castle | Tattershall, Lincolnshire | 33.5 m (110 ft) | 1446 | [4] | |
5 | White Tower, Tower of London | Tower Hamlets, London | 32 m (105 ft)* | 1078 | Height to parapet 27.4 m (90 ft), estimated height to top of stone turrets 32 m (105 ft) | |
6= | Conwy Castle | Conwy, Gwynedd | 30 m (98 ft) | 1289 | ||
6= | Richmond Castle | Richmond, North Yorkshire | 30 m (98 ft) | 1200 | [5] | |
6= | Portchester Castle | Portchester, Hampshire | 30 m (98 ft) | 1200 | [6] | |
9 | Conisbrough Castle | Conisbrough, South Yorkshire | 29.5 m (97 ft) | 1180 | ||
10 | Dover Castle | Dover, Kent | 29 m (95 ft) | 1180 | [7] |
*Estimated height
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Landmark Pinnacle | Tower Hamlets, London | 233 m (764 ft) | 2020 | [8] | |
2 | Newfoundland Place | Tower Hamlets, London | 220 m (720 ft) | 2020 | [9] | |
3 | Hampton Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 215 m (705 ft) | 2021 | [10] | |
4 | One Park Drive | Tower Hamlets, London | 205 m (673 ft) | 2021 | [11] | |
5 | Deansgate Square South Tower | Castlefield, Manchester | 201 m (659 ft) | 2020 | [12] | |
6 | One Nine Elms City Tower | Wandsworth, London | 199 m (653 ft) | 2022 | [13] | |
7 | Wardian East Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 187 m (614 ft) | 2020 | [14] | |
8 | One West Point Block A (Icon Tower) | Ealing, London | 184 m (604 ft) | 2022 | [15] | |
9 | Amory Tower (The Madison) | Tower Hamlets, London | 182 m (597 ft) | 2020 | [16] | |
10 | The Tower, One St George Wharf | Lambeth, London | 181 m (594 ft) | 2013 | [17] |
The tallest partly commercial building - containing the highest offices - is the 309.6 m (1,016 ft) Shard, London.
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 22 Bishopsgate | City of London, London | 278 m (912 ft) | 2020 | [18] | |
2 | One Canada Square | Tower Hamlets, London | 235 m (771 ft) | 1991 | [19] | |
3 | Heron Tower | City of London, London | 230 m (750 ft) | 2010 | [20] | |
4 | 122 Leadenhall Street | City of London, London | 225 m (738 ft) | 2014 | [21] | |
5 | 8 Bishopsgate | City of London, London | 204 m (669 ft) | 2022 | [22] | |
6= | HSBC Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 200 m (660 ft) | 2002 | [23] | |
6= | Citigroup Centre | Tower Hamlets, London | 200 m (660 ft) | 2001 | [24] | |
8 | The Scalpel | City of London, London | 190 m (620 ft) | 2018 | [25] | |
9 | Tower 42 | City of London, London | 183 m (600 ft) | 1980 | [26] | |
10 | The Gherkin | City of London, London | 180 m (590 ft) | 2003 | [27] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Victoria Tower | City of Westminster, London | 102 m (335 ft) | 1858 | [28] [29] Architectural height 102 m (335 ft), roof height 98.5 m (323 ft). | |
3 | Manchester Town Hall | Manchester, Greater Manchester | 87.2 m (286 ft) | 1877 | [30] | |
4 | Civil Justice Centre | Manchester, Greater Manchester | 80 m (260 ft) | 2007 | [31] | |
5 | Royal Courts of Justice | Westminster, London | 74.6 m (245 ft) | 1882 | [32] | |
6= | Glasgow City Chambers | Glasgow, Scotland | 73 m (240 ft) | 1890 | [33] | |
6= | Government Buildings | Cardiff, Wales | 73 m (240 ft) | [34] | ||
8= | Leeds Town Hall | Leeds, West Yorkshire | 69 m (226 ft) | 1858 | [35] | |
8= | High Commission of New Zealand | City of Westminster, London | 69 m (226 ft) | 1963 | [36] | |
10 | Central Criminal Court | London | 66.6 m (219 ft) | 1907 | [37] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guy's Tower | Southwark, London | 143 m (469 ft) | 1973 | [38] | |
2 | Royal London Hospital Tower 2 | Tower Hamlets, London | 101 m (331 ft) | 2010 | [39] | |
3 | Royal London Hospital Tower 1 | Tower Hamlets, London | 97 m (318 ft) | 2010 | [40] | |
4 | University College Hospital | Camden, London | 78 m (256 ft) | 2005 | [41] | |
5= | Royal Hallamshire Hospital | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 76 m (249 ft) | 1979 | [42] | |
5= | Belfast City Hospital | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 76 m (249 ft) | 1986 | [43] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 Marsh Wall | Canary Wharf, London | 127 m (417 ft) | 2017 | [44] | |
2 | London Hilton on Park Lane | City of Westminster, London | 101 m (331 ft) | 1963 | [45] | |
3 | Hilton London Metropole | City of Westminster, London | 91 m (299 ft) | 1972 | [46] | |
4 | Holiday Inn Kensington Forum | Kensington, London | 84 m (276 ft) | 1963 | [47] | |
5= | Premier Inn Leicester City Centre | Leicester, Leicestershire | 82 m (269 ft) | 1965 | [48] | |
5= | St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel | St Pancras, London | 82 m (269 ft) | 1873 | [49] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tate Modern | Southwark, London | 99 m (325 ft) | 1963 | [50] | |
2 | Natural History Museum | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London | 58 m (190 ft) | 1880 | [51] | |
3= | Eden Project | St Blazey, Cornwall | 55 m (180 ft) | 2001 | [52] | |
3= | Imperial War Museum North | Trafford, Greater Manchester | 55 m (180 ft) | 2002 | [53] | |
5 | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | Birmingham, West Midlands | 46 m (151 ft) | 1885 | [54] | |
6 | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear | 42 m (138 ft) | 1950 | [55] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glasgow University Tower | Glasgow, Scotland | 85 m (279 ft) | 1887 | [73] | |
2 | Arts Tower | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 78 m (256 ft) | 1966 | [74] | |
3 | Broadcasting Tower, Leeds | Leeds, West Yorkshire | 69.5 m (228 ft) | 2009 | [75] | |
4= | Wills Memorial Building | Bristol | 68 m (223 ft) | 1925 | [76] | |
4= | Towers Hall | Loughborough, Leicestershire | 68 m (223 ft) | 1967 | [77] | |
6 | Senate House (University of London) | Bloomsbury, London | 64 m (210 ft) | 1937 | [78] |
Cineworld Glasgow ( Glasgow, Scotland) - 62 m (203 ft) [79]
Skelton transmitting station ( Skelton, Cumbria) - 365 m (1,198 ft) [80]
Emley Moor transmitting station ( Emley, West Yorkshire) - 330 m (1,080 ft) [81]
Drax Power Station ( Drax, North Yorkshire) - 259 m (850 ft) [82]
Crystal Palace transmitting station 219 m (719 ft)
Samsung Heavy Industries 7 MW wind turbine prototype 196 m (643 ft)
400 kV Thames Crossing 190.5 m (625 ft)
Queensferry Crossing ( Lothian and Fife) - 207 m (679 ft)
Spinnaker Tower ( Portsmouth, Hampshire) - 170 m (560 ft) [83]
London Eye ( Lambeth, London) - 135 m (443 ft) [84]
Wembley Stadium ( Brent, London) - 133 m (436 ft) [85]
Skerryvore Lighthouse ( Skerryvore, Scotland) - 48 m (157 ft) [86]
Salisbury Cathedral ( Salisbury, Wiltshire) - 123 m (404 ft) [87]
Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower ( Birmingham, West Midlands) - 100 m (330 ft) [88]
Millennium Dome ( Greenwich, London) - 95 m (312 ft) [89]
Grimsby Dock Tower ( Grimsby, Lincolnshire) - 94 m (308 ft) [90]
Lovell Telescope ( Goostrey, Cheshire) - 89 m (292 ft) [91]
Heathrow Air Traffic Control Tower ( Hillingdon, London) - 87 m (285 ft) [92]
Wallace Monument ( Stirling, Scotland) - 67 m (220 ft) [93]
Hyperia ( Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey) - 72 m (236 ft) [94]
ArcelorMittal Orbit ( Stratford, London) - 115 m (377 ft) [95]
The Pagoda ( Richmond upon Thames, London) - 50 m (160 ft) [96]
Birmingham Central mosque ( Birmingham) - 45.7 m (150 ft) [97]
Moulton Windmill ( Moulton, Lincolnshire) - 30 m (98 ft) [98]
Angel of the North ( Gateshead, Tyne and Wear) - 20 m (66 ft)
Dream ( St Helens, Merseyside) - 20 m (66 ft)
This is a list of the tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage.
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Warwick Castle | Warwick, Warwickshire | 45 m (148 ft) | 1360 | [1] Guy's tower rises 39 m (128 ft), Caesar's Tower rises 45 m (148 ft) but from a lower level. | |
2 | Rochester Castle | Rochester, Kent | 38 m (125 ft) | 1127 | [2] 34.5 m (113 ft) to parapet, 38 m (125 ft) to turrets. | |
3 | Caernarfon Castle | Caernarfon, Gwynedd | 35 m (115 ft) | 1330 | [3] | |
4 | Tattershall Castle | Tattershall, Lincolnshire | 33.5 m (110 ft) | 1446 | [4] | |
5 | White Tower, Tower of London | Tower Hamlets, London | 32 m (105 ft)* | 1078 | Height to parapet 27.4 m (90 ft), estimated height to top of stone turrets 32 m (105 ft) | |
6= | Conwy Castle | Conwy, Gwynedd | 30 m (98 ft) | 1289 | ||
6= | Richmond Castle | Richmond, North Yorkshire | 30 m (98 ft) | 1200 | [5] | |
6= | Portchester Castle | Portchester, Hampshire | 30 m (98 ft) | 1200 | [6] | |
9 | Conisbrough Castle | Conisbrough, South Yorkshire | 29.5 m (97 ft) | 1180 | ||
10 | Dover Castle | Dover, Kent | 29 m (95 ft) | 1180 | [7] |
*Estimated height
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Landmark Pinnacle | Tower Hamlets, London | 233 m (764 ft) | 2020 | [8] | |
2 | Newfoundland Place | Tower Hamlets, London | 220 m (720 ft) | 2020 | [9] | |
3 | Hampton Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 215 m (705 ft) | 2021 | [10] | |
4 | One Park Drive | Tower Hamlets, London | 205 m (673 ft) | 2021 | [11] | |
5 | Deansgate Square South Tower | Castlefield, Manchester | 201 m (659 ft) | 2020 | [12] | |
6 | One Nine Elms City Tower | Wandsworth, London | 199 m (653 ft) | 2022 | [13] | |
7 | Wardian East Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 187 m (614 ft) | 2020 | [14] | |
8 | One West Point Block A (Icon Tower) | Ealing, London | 184 m (604 ft) | 2022 | [15] | |
9 | Amory Tower (The Madison) | Tower Hamlets, London | 182 m (597 ft) | 2020 | [16] | |
10 | The Tower, One St George Wharf | Lambeth, London | 181 m (594 ft) | 2013 | [17] |
The tallest partly commercial building - containing the highest offices - is the 309.6 m (1,016 ft) Shard, London.
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 22 Bishopsgate | City of London, London | 278 m (912 ft) | 2020 | [18] | |
2 | One Canada Square | Tower Hamlets, London | 235 m (771 ft) | 1991 | [19] | |
3 | Heron Tower | City of London, London | 230 m (750 ft) | 2010 | [20] | |
4 | 122 Leadenhall Street | City of London, London | 225 m (738 ft) | 2014 | [21] | |
5 | 8 Bishopsgate | City of London, London | 204 m (669 ft) | 2022 | [22] | |
6= | HSBC Tower | Tower Hamlets, London | 200 m (660 ft) | 2002 | [23] | |
6= | Citigroup Centre | Tower Hamlets, London | 200 m (660 ft) | 2001 | [24] | |
8 | The Scalpel | City of London, London | 190 m (620 ft) | 2018 | [25] | |
9 | Tower 42 | City of London, London | 183 m (600 ft) | 1980 | [26] | |
10 | The Gherkin | City of London, London | 180 m (590 ft) | 2003 | [27] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Victoria Tower | City of Westminster, London | 102 m (335 ft) | 1858 | [28] [29] Architectural height 102 m (335 ft), roof height 98.5 m (323 ft). | |
3 | Manchester Town Hall | Manchester, Greater Manchester | 87.2 m (286 ft) | 1877 | [30] | |
4 | Civil Justice Centre | Manchester, Greater Manchester | 80 m (260 ft) | 2007 | [31] | |
5 | Royal Courts of Justice | Westminster, London | 74.6 m (245 ft) | 1882 | [32] | |
6= | Glasgow City Chambers | Glasgow, Scotland | 73 m (240 ft) | 1890 | [33] | |
6= | Government Buildings | Cardiff, Wales | 73 m (240 ft) | [34] | ||
8= | Leeds Town Hall | Leeds, West Yorkshire | 69 m (226 ft) | 1858 | [35] | |
8= | High Commission of New Zealand | City of Westminster, London | 69 m (226 ft) | 1963 | [36] | |
10 | Central Criminal Court | London | 66.6 m (219 ft) | 1907 | [37] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Guy's Tower | Southwark, London | 143 m (469 ft) | 1973 | [38] | |
2 | Royal London Hospital Tower 2 | Tower Hamlets, London | 101 m (331 ft) | 2010 | [39] | |
3 | Royal London Hospital Tower 1 | Tower Hamlets, London | 97 m (318 ft) | 2010 | [40] | |
4 | University College Hospital | Camden, London | 78 m (256 ft) | 2005 | [41] | |
5= | Royal Hallamshire Hospital | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 76 m (249 ft) | 1979 | [42] | |
5= | Belfast City Hospital | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 76 m (249 ft) | 1986 | [43] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 40 Marsh Wall | Canary Wharf, London | 127 m (417 ft) | 2017 | [44] | |
2 | London Hilton on Park Lane | City of Westminster, London | 101 m (331 ft) | 1963 | [45] | |
3 | Hilton London Metropole | City of Westminster, London | 91 m (299 ft) | 1972 | [46] | |
4 | Holiday Inn Kensington Forum | Kensington, London | 84 m (276 ft) | 1963 | [47] | |
5= | Premier Inn Leicester City Centre | Leicester, Leicestershire | 82 m (269 ft) | 1965 | [48] | |
5= | St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel | St Pancras, London | 82 m (269 ft) | 1873 | [49] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tate Modern | Southwark, London | 99 m (325 ft) | 1963 | [50] | |
2 | Natural History Museum | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London | 58 m (190 ft) | 1880 | [51] | |
3= | Eden Project | St Blazey, Cornwall | 55 m (180 ft) | 2001 | [52] | |
3= | Imperial War Museum North | Trafford, Greater Manchester | 55 m (180 ft) | 2002 | [53] | |
5 | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | Birmingham, West Midlands | 46 m (151 ft) | 1885 | [54] | |
6 | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear | 42 m (138 ft) | 1950 | [55] |
Rank |
Building |
Location |
Image | Height |
Year |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Glasgow University Tower | Glasgow, Scotland | 85 m (279 ft) | 1887 | [73] | |
2 | Arts Tower | Sheffield, South Yorkshire | 78 m (256 ft) | 1966 | [74] | |
3 | Broadcasting Tower, Leeds | Leeds, West Yorkshire | 69.5 m (228 ft) | 2009 | [75] | |
4= | Wills Memorial Building | Bristol | 68 m (223 ft) | 1925 | [76] | |
4= | Towers Hall | Loughborough, Leicestershire | 68 m (223 ft) | 1967 | [77] | |
6 | Senate House (University of London) | Bloomsbury, London | 64 m (210 ft) | 1937 | [78] |
Cineworld Glasgow ( Glasgow, Scotland) - 62 m (203 ft) [79]
Skelton transmitting station ( Skelton, Cumbria) - 365 m (1,198 ft) [80]
Emley Moor transmitting station ( Emley, West Yorkshire) - 330 m (1,080 ft) [81]
Drax Power Station ( Drax, North Yorkshire) - 259 m (850 ft) [82]
Crystal Palace transmitting station 219 m (719 ft)
Samsung Heavy Industries 7 MW wind turbine prototype 196 m (643 ft)
400 kV Thames Crossing 190.5 m (625 ft)
Queensferry Crossing ( Lothian and Fife) - 207 m (679 ft)
Spinnaker Tower ( Portsmouth, Hampshire) - 170 m (560 ft) [83]
London Eye ( Lambeth, London) - 135 m (443 ft) [84]
Wembley Stadium ( Brent, London) - 133 m (436 ft) [85]
Skerryvore Lighthouse ( Skerryvore, Scotland) - 48 m (157 ft) [86]
Salisbury Cathedral ( Salisbury, Wiltshire) - 123 m (404 ft) [87]
Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower ( Birmingham, West Midlands) - 100 m (330 ft) [88]
Millennium Dome ( Greenwich, London) - 95 m (312 ft) [89]
Grimsby Dock Tower ( Grimsby, Lincolnshire) - 94 m (308 ft) [90]
Lovell Telescope ( Goostrey, Cheshire) - 89 m (292 ft) [91]
Heathrow Air Traffic Control Tower ( Hillingdon, London) - 87 m (285 ft) [92]
Wallace Monument ( Stirling, Scotland) - 67 m (220 ft) [93]
Hyperia ( Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey) - 72 m (236 ft) [94]
ArcelorMittal Orbit ( Stratford, London) - 115 m (377 ft) [95]
The Pagoda ( Richmond upon Thames, London) - 50 m (160 ft) [96]
Birmingham Central mosque ( Birmingham) - 45.7 m (150 ft) [97]
Moulton Windmill ( Moulton, Lincolnshire) - 30 m (98 ft) [98]
Angel of the North ( Gateshead, Tyne and Wear) - 20 m (66 ft)
Dream ( St Helens, Merseyside) - 20 m (66 ft)