The following year, the architect William Colling was asked to draw up plans for a tower to commemorate the monarch's visit.

[2] The site chosen for Victoria Tower was an earthen mound opposite the Arsenal, where Guernsey's militia were housed.

[1] In 1999 structural problems led to the tower's being closed to the general public; it was re-opened on 24 May 2006, the birthday of Queen Victoria, during a re-enactment of the ceremony accompanying the laying of the foundation stone in 1848.

The Lieutenant Governor, Vice Admiral Sir Fabian Malbon KBE, re-opened the tower in the presence of the Bailiff Geoffrey Rowland.

[2][3] The tower is next to the Town Arsenal, originally built to house the artillery for the Royal Guernsey Militia, currently used by the Guernsey Fire and Rescue Service A public garden around the tower was later created, in which were placed two cannons captured from the Russians during the Crimean War these now sit on the ramparts of Castle Cornet.