List of tallest structures built before the 20th century

List of pre-twentieth century structures by height

Name	Municipality (current)	Country (current)	Height (feet)	Height (metres)	Completed	Comments
Eiffel Tower	Paris	France	986	300	1889
New Brighton Tower	New Brighton	United Kingdom	567	173	1900	Tower dismantled from 1919.
Washington Monument	Washington, D.C.	United States	555	169	1884
Mole Antonelliana	Turin	Italy	549.54	167.5	1889
Ulm Minster	Ulm	Germany	529.92	161.53	1890
Lincoln Cathedral	Lincoln	United Kingdom	525	160	1300	Spire destroyed in 1549.
St. Olaf's Church	Tallinn	Estonia	522	159	1519	Spire destroyed in 1625.
Blackpool Tower	Blackpool	United Kingdom	518	158	1894
Cologne Cathedral	Cologne	Germany	516	157	1880
Rouen Cathedral	Rouen	France	495	151	1876
St. Mary's Church	Stralsund	Germany	495	151	1625	Spire destroyed 1647.
Old St. Paul's Cathedral	London	United Kingdom	493	150.2	1240	Spire destroyed in 1561.
St. Nikolai	Hamburg	Germany	482	147	1874
Pyramid of Khufu	Giza	Egypt	481	146.6	c. 2570 BC	The Great Pyramid.
Pyramid of Khafre	Giza	Egypt	475	143	c. 2530 BC
Strasbourg Cathedral	Strasbourg	France	472	142	1439
Halsbrücker Esse	Halsbrücke	Germany	459	140	1889
St. Peter's Basilica		Vatican City	452	138	1626
St. Stephen's Cathedral	Vienna	Austria	448	c. 136.74	1433
Yongning Pagoda (永宁宝塔)	Luoyang	China	448	c. 136.71	516
St. Martin's Church	Landshut	Germany	428	130.6	1500
Amiens Cathedral	Amiens	France	415	126.6	1533
St. Mary's	Lübeck	Germany	410	125	1350
Cathedral of Our Lady	Antwerp	Belgium	404	123	1521
Salisbury Cathedral	Salisbury	United Kingdom	404	123	1320
Church of Our Lady	Bruges	Belgium	401	122.7	c. 1400
Belltower of Peter and Paul Cathedral	Saint Petersburg	Russia	401	122.5	1733
Kanishka stupa	Peshawar	Pakistan	400	120	200 CE	Destroyed by White Huns in 460 CE
Jetavanaramaya	Anuradhapura	Sri Lanka	400	122	273–301
Basilica of San Gaudenzio	Novara	Italy	397	121	1887
Phra Pathommachedi	Nakhon Pathom	Thailand	396	120.45	1870
Pharos Lighthouse	Alexandria	Egypt	338~387	103~118[1]	c. 280 BC	Destroyed by earthquakes in 1303 and 1323.
Potala Palace	Lhasa	China	384	117	1694
Florence Cathedral	Florence	Italy	375	114.5	1436
Torrazzo of Cremona	Cremona	Italy	369.75	112.7	1309
Shwedagon Pagoda	Yangon	Myanmar	367	112	1775	Successively rebuilt taller: 18m (1362); 40m (1462)
New St. Paul's Cathedral	London	United Kingdom	365	111.2	1677	Built after the destruction of Old St. Paul's.
Dom Tower of Utrecht	Utrecht	Netherlands	358	109	1382	Restored in 1912 to reach current height of 112 metres.
Milwaukee City Hall	Milwaukee	United States	353	108	1895
Chaturbhuj Temple	Orchha	India	344	104.8	c. 1558	Chaturbhuj Temple dedicated to Vishnu was the tallest structure in the Indian subcontinent from 1558 CE to 1970 CE.
Red Pyramid	Dahshur	Egypt	345	105	c. 2600 BC
Old City Hall (Toronto)	Toronto	Canada	340	103.6	1899	Largest civic building in North America prior to 20th century
Cathedral of St. Bartholomew (Plzeň)	Plzeň	Czech Republic	335	103	c. 1480	Construction begun in 1342.
Giralda	Seville	Spain	330	101	1568	68 m when was constructed in 1171; built it higher in 1568
Shwesandaw Pagoda	Bagan	Myanmar	328+	100+	c. 1057	100 meters tall without counting its hti spire
St Mark's Campanile	Venice	Italy	323	98.6	1514
Torre Asinelli	Bologna	Italy	318	97.2	before 1185
Norwich Cathedral	Norwich	United Kingdom	315	96	1480	Building of current spire commenced
Church of St Walburge, Preston	Preston	United Kingdom	309	94	1873
Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto)	Toronto	Canada	305	92.9	1874
Ruwanwelisaya	Anuradhapura	Sri Lanka	300	92	c. 140 BC
Etemenanki	Babylon	Iraq	298.56	91	c. 601 BC	Ziggurat dedicated to Marduk. Alleged to have originally been built, to an unknown height, between the 14th-9th centuries BC, then destroyed in 689 BC by Sennacherib. Rebuilt c. 600 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II. Finally demolished by Alexander the Great in 323 BC .
Shwemawdaw Pagoda	Bago	Myanmar	295+	90+	1796	Was 90 meters tall without counting its hti spire; raised to 114 m (without counting the hti spire height) in 1954.
Coventry Cathedral	Coventry	United Kingdom	295	90	1500
Torre del Mangia	Siena	Italy	289	88	1348
The Roman-Catholic Parish Church	Spišská Nová Ves	Slovakia	285	87	1894
Liaodi Pagoda	Dingzhou	China	276	84	1055
Brooklyn Bridge	New York City	United States	276	84	1883
Minarets of Selimiye Mosque	Edirne	Turkey	272	83	1574
St. Mary's Church	Gdansk	Poland	269	82	1502
Hwangryongsa	Gyeongju	South Korea	262	80	643
Koutoubia	Marrakesh	Morocco	253	77	1199
Beisi Pagoda	Suzhou	China	249	76	1153
Clérigos Church	Porto	Portugal	248	75.6	1750
Abayagiriya	Anuradhapura	Sri Lanka	245	74.6	c. 103 BC
Mahachaitya	Amaravathi	India	242	73	c. 300 BC	Destroyed in British era
Taj Mahal	Agra, Uttar Pradesh	India	240	73	1653
Qutb Minar	Delhi	India	237	72.5	c. 1200
La Danta Temple	El Mirador	Guatemala	236	72	300 BC
Minarets of Süleymaniye Mosque	Istanbul	Turkey	236	72	1558
Gonbad-e Qabus	Gonbad-e Qabus	Iran	236	72	1006
Canterbury Cathedral	Canterbury	United Kingdom	235	71.6	1498
Pyramid of the Sun	Teotihuacan	Mexico	233.6	71.2	100
Tikal Temple IV	Tikal	Guatemala	230	70	c. 741
The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu	Dur-Kurigalzu	Iraq	230	70	c. 1400 BC
Qianxun Pagoda	Dali City	China	228	69.6	823–840
Pagoda of Fogong Temple	Ying County	China	220	67.3	1056
Galata Tower	Istanbul	Turkey	219	66.9	1348
Great Pyramid of Cholula	Cholula	Mexico	217	66	200 BC
Arunachaleswara Temple	Tiruvannamalai	India	217	66	9th Century
Brihadiswara Temple	Thanjavur	India	217	66	1010 AD
Ely Cathedral	Ely	United Kingdom	217	66	1375
Thatbyinnyu Temple	Bagan	Myanmar	217	66	1150
Angkor Wat	Angkor	Cambodia	213	65	c. 1150
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda	Xi'an	China	210	64	704
Minarets of Sultan Ahmed Mosque	Istanbul	Turkey	210	64	1616
Notre-Dame Basilica	Montreal	Canada	200	60	1843
Liuhe Pagoda	Hangzhou	China	196	59.89	1165
Mirisawetiya Vihara	Anuradhapura	Sri Lanka	192	58.5	c. 161 BC
Leaning Tower of Pisa	Pisa	Italy	191.47	58.36	1372
Pagoda of Tianning Temple	Beijing	China	189	57.8	1100–1120
Hagia Sophia Cathedral	Istanbul	Turkey	184	56.1	537
El Tigre	El Mirador	Guatemala	183	55.8	100
Main Pyramid of Calakmul	Calakmul	Mexico	181.4	55	100
Temple of the Jaguar Priest	Tikal	Guatemala	180.4	55	810
Washington Monument	Baltimore	United States	178	54.4	1829
Basilica and Convent of St. Francis	Salta	Argentina	177	54	1877
Ananda Temple	Bagan	Myanmar	167+	51+	1105	51 meters tall without counting its hti spire
Huaca del Sol	Trujillo	Peru	164	50	450
Htupayon Pagoda	Sagaing	Myanmar	161+	49+	1851/52	49 meters tall without counting its hti spire; originally built in 1444–1454; now raised to 61.5 m (since 2016)
Colosseum	Rome	Italy	157	48	80
Templo Mayor	Mexico City	Mexico	c. 150	c. 45	1325	Destroyed in 1521.
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus	Bodrum	Turkey	148	45	c. 350 BC
Cathedral of Córdoba	Córdoba	Argentina	148	45	1787
Zvartnots Cathedral	Zvartnots	Armenia	148	45	652
Hassan Tower	Rabat	Morocco	144	44	1199
Pyramid of the Moon	Teotihuacan	Mexico	141	43	100
El Castillo	Xunantunich	Belize	130	40	600
St. Ignatius Church	Buenos Aires	Argentina	130	40	1722
Great Pyramid of La Venta	La Venta	Mexico	110	34	c. 900 BC
Colossus of Rhodes	Rhodes	Greece	110	33.5	c. 280 BC
High Temple	Lamanai	Belize	108	33	400–100 BC

References

McKenzie, Judith (2011). The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt: 300 BC – AD 700. Yale University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0300170948.

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[1] McKenzie, Judith (2011). The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt: 300 BC – AD 700. Yale University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0300170948.

List of tallest structures built before the 20th century

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