Jewel House

51°30′29″N 0°4′34″W / 51.50806°N 0.07611°W / 51.50806; -0.07611

Entrance to the Jewel House

The Jewel House is a vault housing the British Crown Jewels in the Waterloo Block (formerly a barracks) at the Tower of London. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and refurbished in 2012. Regalia have been kept in various parts of the Tower since the 14th century after a series of successful and attempted thefts at Westminster Abbey.