Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower

The Imperial Monumental Halls and Tower was a proposed Gothic complex designed for a site in London adjacent to Westminster Abbey.

The design by John Pollard Seddon (then diocesan architect for London) and Edward Beckitt Lamb (son of Edward Buckton Lamb) was based on earlier schemes that each had proposed separately - such as the National Monument to British Heroes - and was one of many extensions proposed for Westminster Abbey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by architects such as George Gilbert Scott, George John Shaw Lefevre, James Fergusson, and Henry Travis.

The architects aspired to create a grand and expensive monument to "form a worthy centre to the metropolis of the Empire 'upon which the sun never sets'".

The soaring Memorial Tower included a high-level open ambulatory, surmounted by a corona topped by a lantern with bells.

It would have been the tallest building in the United Kingdom, significantly higher than the 111 metres (364 ft) dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

Lamb and Seddon's 1904 design for a new Imperial Monumental Halls. The Gothic Revival tower would have been the tallest building in the UK with a similar floor area to the Abbey next door. Several views from different angles were created.