Big Ben will finally chime again from early next year equally the restoration of Parliament's Elizabeth Tower nears completion.

The £89million refurbishment of the Westminster landmark was originally expected to exist finished in tardily 2021 but was delayed as the Covid-nineteen crisis held up piece of work.

Parliament authorities said in a statement: "The Elizabeth Tower conservation project is due to complete in the second quarter of 2022, and Parliament has revealed a number of of import milestones that are expected on the project over the adjacent 12 months.

"These include the removal of further scaffolding, the re-installation of the Great Clock and the return of Big Ben's world-famous chimes."

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Workers are seen on scaffolding on Elizabeth Tower (

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The "complex task" of installing the restored clock machinery will begin this summer.

"Following years of painstaking conservation work, the clock easily, now resplendent in their original Victorian color scheme, will be added to the clock dials, with the restored mechanism returning to the Belfry later in the year," the statement said.

"Visitors to Westminster volition begin to see further scaffolding removed from the Tower from the autumn of 2021 and standing through the winter."

The belfry has been surrounded in scaffolding (

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Early side by side year the bells, including the iconic Big Ben, will exist reconnected to the original Victorian clock mechanism "and will ring out across Westminster in one case once again".

So the gantry, which has protected the Palace of Westminster, a World Heritage Site, throughout the works will be removed before the site is fully cleared ahead of side by side summer.

The iconic, 177-twelvemonth-sometime Tower has been wrapped in scaffolding since summer 2017.

The icon will be dorsum bonging in no time (

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The Great Bong, nicknamed Big Ben and cast in the Whitechapel Foundry, first rang out beyond London on July 11, 1859.

It has been largely silent since 2017 merely has been reconnected for significant occasions such every bit Remembrance Sunday and to herald midnight on New year'south Eve.

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The Mirror told terminal yr how work to revamp the Tower would cost most £19m more than planned equally the budget soared from £61.1m to £79.7m.

That revelation came less than three years subsequently the cost climbed by £32m.

Experts blamed the discovery of "extensive" Second Earth War bomb damage, pollution and asbestos for the price hike.

Latest reports suggest the bill will hit £89m.