Quick facts
Key facts and figures in one place.
At a glance
- Location
- River Thames, London, next to the Tower of London
- Type
- Combined bascule and suspension bridge
- Construction
- 1886 to 1894
- Opened
- 30 June 1894, by the Prince of Wales
- Designers
- Horace Jones (architect) and John Wolfe Barry (engineer); George Stevenson completed the architectural design after Jones died
- Bascule angle
- Up to 86 degrees
- Weight of each bascule
- About 1,000 tonnes
- Cladding
- Portland stone and Cornish granite over a steel frame
- Heritage status
- Grade I listed
Common mix-ups
- Tower Bridge is not London Bridge. London Bridge is the plainer crossing a short way upstream.
- The bridge is named after the nearby Tower of London.