We were discussing this today. As part of a project we’re doing we easily decided the most iconic building in other countries, but clashed somewhat on what is the most iconic British Building or landmark

There was some northern chipiness going on. No bad thing

So I’d be very interested to know what you think is a British Icon and why?

GO!!!

Barrow in Furness bus depot or Stonehenge …

big ben, i’d say. maybe tower bridge or st pauls.

Big Ben. It’s easily one of the most famous landmarks in the world.

Big Ben
White cliffs.

The ventilating towers of the first mersey road tunnel, birkenhead.Which i shall be riding past in about 20 minutes.

In my country, Edinburgh Castle – judging by visitor numbers anyway….

Big Ben ftw

The ventilating towers of the first mersey road tunnel, birkenhead.Which i shall be riding past in about 20 minutes.

That’s a nice building for geometry fans. I’ll be seeing it from the other side of the river in about 50 minutes and I shall wave.

No?

I guess most ‘foreigners’ would know which country this was in?

so it’s iconic in that respect.

I’ve always liked Castle Howard, though;}

Big Ben/HoP.

Got to be really in’t it?

The London skyline is certainly truly iconic:

Elf, you forgot the dirt and the doom-laden greyness. 🙄

St Pauls, Tower Bridge, Palace of Westminster or Stonehenge for England and the whole of the UK. The Angel of the North is nice but I don’t know if it’s something known worldwide.

In Scotland I’d maybe go for the Forth Rail Bridge. I wouldn’t say that Edinburgh Castle is particularly distinctive. Well not the castle itself. Having it stuck on a great big batholith (awesome word) helps, though.

Stonehenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_of_the_United_Kingdom

Elf, you forgot the dirt and the doom-laden greyness

I was talking about London, not Birmingham.

I would have to say The Palace of Westminster and the clock tower therei that houses Big Ben, as Englands (and in some eyes Britains) most iconic construct. Tower Bridge probably comes second though perhaps on an equal footing with Stonehenge.

Natural icon probably has to be the White Cliffs. While there are too many to name utterly beautiful natural sites throughout the UK I doubt that many residents let alone visitors from other lands would say that any other natural site says England/Britain like the white cliffs.

what is the most iconic British Building

Keep up druidh, Bregante, although the Oxford is right up there for me personally 🙂

I picture an image of that there clocktower containing the bell known as Big Ben, preferably with a man in a bowler hat and a kilt, singing “sospan fach” stepping off a Routemaster bus.

Iconic: Big Ben
Best: Durham Cathedral

singing “bread of heaven”

Jerusalem, surely?

I was talking about London, not Birmingham.

Hmm… well, I was on Noddy’s DLR railway the other day. The views between Bank and whatever the destination station was were of… dirt and the doom-laden greyness, plus the Millennium Dome, which, if anything, looks sillier in real life than it does on TV.

def big ben HoP – still cool seeing in the mornings.

picture of Big Ben

which is inside the Clock Tower of St Stephens

shame the tower has started to lean a bit!

Barrow in Furness bus depot

Not as chewy as the old one.

</showing my age>

Bregante wins. Hic! 😀

Actually Project – The Liverpool shoreline we hadn’t thought of, but is very iconic. Old Trafford was mentioned repeatedly Thats what you get for asking a load of Mancs 😉

That Wiki list is incorrect, as it omits this wondrous place:

Is beautiful. 😥

I know I always loved that advert for Chewits.

Definiltey Parliament. I’ve shown many (intelligent and educated) Americans around, and the thing they all want to see is HoP. The other things of which they have heard are usually the Eye and Tower Bridge (which they usually call London Bridge)

Wow! Where’s that Fred?

Now you’re being silly Binners. You know perfectly well that it is the World Famous Alhambra Palace in Bradford (after which some much lesser building in Granada TV was named).

One day I shall visit this magnificent and magical place:

1) Houses of Parliament
2) Tower Bridge
3) Heaton Park Tower 😉

Sorry Elf… I’ll get around to updating Wiki later.

One day I shall visit this magnificent and magical place:

You’ll have to be quick, they’re on about pulling it down.

They must not, Cougar! they must not. Stop them please.

Forth Bridge is the most iconic Scottish thing for me actually, as an ignorant heathen sassenach what’s never bin there. 🙂

It’s a bloody nice bridge, in’t it? We Londoners appreciate a nice bridge…

I am afraid that photo flatters Preston Bus Station, didn’t realise they were planning to pull it down

Another iconic bridge surprised no-one’s mentioned it yet:

I think the tithebarn project has been scrapped in Preston