This is a list of clock towers by location. It includes clock towers based on the following definition:
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall.
The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock. It often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes, sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes.
clocktower sardarshahar best clocktower in world . it's only one clocktower in Asia because that has streets running under it in all four directions. The clock tower is made of white marble.Its height is 60 feet and the upper minaret is 30 feet high. Anglo swiss watches from Switzerland are embedded on its four sides.
Africa
Tunisia
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Clock Tower |
January 14th, 2011 Square, Tunis |
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Americas
Chile
In 2013, a research made by newspaper La Tercera revealed that only 5 out of 25 clock towers are functioning in Santiago, mostly because of financial issues and lack of interest by the owners.[1]
Canada
Ontario
- Brampton City Hall, Brampton, Ontario
- Cambridge City Hall,(formerly Galt City Hall) Cambridge, Ontario
- Cathedral Church of St. James, Toronto
- Central Post Office (Ottawa)
- Dominion Building, Brampton
- Hamilton City Hall
- Hart House (University of Toronto), Soldiers' Tower (University of Toronto), Toronto
- Kerr Hall, Ryerson University, Toronto
- Mississauga City Hall in Mississauga
- Old City Hall (Toronto), Toronto
- Peace Tower, Parliament Hill Ottawa
- Planet Snoopy (formerly Hanna-Barbera Land), Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan
- Queen Street Viaduct, Toronto
- Queen's Quay Terminal, Toronto
- Ridley College, St. Catharines
- Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario
- St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto
- St. Paul's Cathedral (London, Ontario)
- Summerhill-North Toronto CPR Station, Toronto
- Toronto Fire Services Station 227, Toronto
- Upper Canada College, Toronto
- Market Hall Performing Arts Centre, Peterborough, Ontario
- Fire Hall and Police Station, Exhibition Place, Toronto
- Toronto Fire Service Station 315, former Toronto Fire Department Hose Station # 8, Toronto - 1972 replica of 1878 tower
- Press Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto
- former Toronto Fire Department Fire Hall Number 3, Toronto - tower now on top of new commercial building at 484 Yonge Street
- Toronto Fire Station 312, former Toronto FD Hall #10
- former North York Fire Hall # 1 hose drying tower - now located at Princess Park behind Empress Walk
- Etobicoke Civic Centre clock tower, Toronto
- East York Civic Centre, Toronto
Asia
India
Name | Location | Built | Image | Notes |
clocktower |
sardarshahar rajasthan |
1976 |
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Clock Tower is architectural clock tower located in sardarshahar, rajasthan, India The clocktower of Sardarshahar is very famous as it is the only clock tower in all of asia that has streets running under it in all four directions. The clock tower is made of white marble.Its height is 60 feet and the upper minaret is 30 feet high. Anglo swiss watches from Switzerland are embedded on its four sides.the unique clock tower in sardarshahar it is only one clock tower in asia and it is only 2nd in world ... This is a tourist attraction |
Bahraich Clock Tower |
Bahraich |
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Chennai Central railway station |
Chennai |
1900 |
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Clock tower |
Royapettah, Chennai |
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Ripon Building |
Chennai |
1913 |
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Annamalai University Clock Tower |
Chidambaram |
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TNAU Clock Tower |
TNAU, Coimbatore |
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Ghantaghar |
Dehradun |
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Ghantaghar |
Chandni Chowk, Delhi |
1870 |
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Partially collapsed in 1950 and subsequently dismantled |
Ghantaghar |
Subzi Mandi, Delhi |
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Hari Nagar Ghantaghar |
Hari Nagar, Delhi |
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Clock Tower, Erode |
Erode |
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Clock tower |
Faizabad |
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Ram Narain Periwal Clock Tower |
Fazilka |
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IIEST Shibpur clock tower |
Shibpur, Howrah |
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Hooghly Imambara clock tower |
Hooghly |
1861 |
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Ghari Ghar |
Murshidabad |
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Secunderabad Clock Tower |
Secunderabad, Hyderabad |
1897 |
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Clock tower |
Jodhpur |
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Clock tower |
Kalimpong |
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Clock Tower at Christ Church |
Kasauli |
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Chinnakada Clock Tower |
Kollam |
1944 |
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Lawrence School, Lovedale Clock Tower |
Lovedale |
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Husainabad Clock Tower |
Lucknow |
1881 |
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Chaura Bazaar clock tower |
Ludhiana |
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Mirzapur Clock Tower |
Mirzapur |
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Rajabai Tower |
South Mumbai, Mumbai |
1878 |
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Clock tower |
Nagercoil |
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BITS-Pilani Clock Tower |
BITS, Pilani |
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Clock tower |
Sardarshahar |
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Golden Rock Railway Workshop |
Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli |
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NIT Trichy Clock Tower |
NIT Trichy, Tiruchirapalli |
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Ghantaghar |
Freeganj, Ujjain |
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Nepal
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Ghanta Ghar |
Birgunj |
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Ghanta Ghar |
Kathmandu |
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The tower was destroyed in an earthquake in 1990, and subsequently rebuilt, but does not look exactly like the previous version |
Dharan clock tower |
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Europe
United Kingdom
- Bank Hall Clock Tower, Bretherton, Lancashire, England
- Central Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland
- City Hall, Cardiff, Wales
- City Hall, Norwich, England
- Civic Centre, Southampton, England
- Clock Tower, Brighton, England
- Clock Tower, Malvern, England
- Clock Tower, Clevedon, England
- Clock Tower, Epsom, Surrey, England
- Clock Tower, Herne Bay, Kent, England - probably oldest in the UK
- Clock tower, Redcar, North Yorkshire, England
- Clock tower, Surbiton, London, England
- Council House, Nottingham, England
- Elizabeth Tower (formerly St Stephen's Tower), Palace of Westminster, London, England (Big Ben is the name of the bell inside)
- Gravesend Clock Tower, Kent, England
- Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower, Leicester, England
- Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, The University of Birmingham, England (The tallest freestanding clock tower in the world)
- Jubilee Clock, Weymouth, Dorset, England
- King's Cross station, London, England
- Little Ben, London, England
- Liver Building, Liverpool, England
- North British Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Parkinson Building, The University of Leeds, England
- St. Pancras railway station, London, England
- Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow, Scotland
- Trent Building, The University of Nottingham, England
- Victoria Tower, Liverpool, England
Oceania
Australia
- Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane, Queensland
- Central Railway Station, Sydney, New South Wales
- Fremantle Town Hall, Fremantle, Western Australia
- Hobart General Post Office, Hobart, Tasmania
- Launceston Post Office, Launceston, Tasmania
- Kalgoorlie Post Office, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
- Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria
- Perth Town Hall, Perth, Western Australia
- Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, New South Wales
- Winthrop Hall, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia.