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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.tecture/gallery_buildingstyles_06.shtml - calls it St Stephen's Tower. So do several hundred other websites and reference books. I think we can take it, therefore, that the idea that it has never been called anything other than the Clock Tower - which is certainly its 'official' name - is not strictly accurate!
In precisely the same way, we all know that Big Ben is actually the bell within the tower, but that doesn't stop virtually everyone referring to the clock or even the clock-faces specifically by that name.
What you presumably mean to say is that it "has never been known by any other official name", which I don't imagine anyone would dispute. I don't...the reason I called it 'Parliament Clock Tower' earlier is because, at some time in my Iong life, I had read that that is what it is officially called. I'm totally happy to stand corrected on that point. The fact remains, though, that there are masses of people who call it St Stephen's Tower, misnomer or not. And people will happily go on saying they saw Big Ben on their trip to London, even though they didn't set foot in the tower! (I'll leave it at that.)