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A clock tower is a tower built with one or more (often four) clock faces. The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall, but many clock towers are free-standing.
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.

Landmarks

Some clock towers are famous landmarks. Five of the best-known are the clock tower which houses Big Ben (often itself colloquially referred to as Big Ben) of the Palace of Westminster in London, the Rajabai Tower in Mumbai, the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, the Peace Tower in Ottawa, and the world's tallest free standing clock tower; the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower in Birmingham,England.
On New Year's Eve 2004 four 6.3-metre clock faces were added to the top of the Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science building in Warsaw, Poland making it the highest 4-faced clock tower in the world and the second highest clock tower in the world.. The NTT DoCoMo Yoyogi Building 240 meters (787 feet) is 10 meters higher and is the highest clock tower in the world. The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower holds the record for the largest non-chiming four faced clock.

History

Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the twentieth century, most people didn't have watches, and prior to the 18th century even home clocks were rare. The first clocks didn't have faces, but were solely striking clocks, which sounded bells to call the surrounding community to prayer. They were therefore placed in towers so the bells would be audible for a long distance. Clock towers were placed near the centers of towns and were often the tallest structures there. As clock towers became more common, the designers realized that a dial on the outside of the tower would allow the townspeople to read the time whenever they wanted.
The use of clock towers dates back to the Middle Ages. The earliest clock tower was constructed by Su Song in Kaifeng, China, and completed in 1088. The first striking clock tower was constructed shortly after in 1154 near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, by the Arab engineer al-Kaysarani. The earliest clock tower in Europe was the Salisbury cathedral clock in England, completed in 1306. JB Joyce & Co claims to be the world's oldest tower clock maker (still in operation). The company began life in 1690 and still manufactures clocks not far from its original premises in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Today it's a part of the Smith of Derby Group

, started in 1856, which claims to be the largest tower clock manufacturer in the world. The company has manufactured tower clocks for St Paul's Cathedral in London and the Shanghai Customs building in China.

List of Clock towers

Asia

Ram Narain Periwal Clock Tower, Fazilka, Pujab, India
Rajabai Tower, South Mumbai, India
The Clock Tower,Secunderabad,Andhra pradesh,India
Clock Tower, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Clock Tower, Sialkot, Pakistan
Clock Tower, Multan, Pakistan
Clock Tower Building of The Chinese High School, a national monument of Singapore
The Clock Tower at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong was part of the former Kowloon Station
Malay College Kuala Kangsar Clock Tower, Malaysia
The old Star Ferry pier in Central, Hong Kong
Jam Gadang, Bukittinggi, a clocktower in Indonesia.
Deira Clocktower in Deira, Dubai

North America

Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Central Post Office (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada

St. Paul's Cathedral (London, Ontario), Canada

Hamilton City Hall, Ontario, Canada

Old City Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Queen's Quay Terminal, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kerr Hall, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hart House, Soldiers' Tower (University of Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Queen Street Viaduct, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Press Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fire Hall & Police Station, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Summerhill-North Toronto CPR Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto Fire Services Station 227, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

former Toronto Fire Department Hose Station # 8, Toronto, Ontario

Peace Tower, Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Clock tower of the Mississauga City Hall in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Gare du Palais, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Montreal Clock Tower,(External Link

) Quebec, Canada

Vancouver City Hall, British Columbia, Canada

McGraw Tower at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

Samford Hall located on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama

Allen-Bradley Division Rockwell Automation Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

City Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Saint Agnes Church St. Paul, Minnesota

Sather Tower, University of California, Berkeley

Memorial Tower, Louisiana State University

Clock Tower, Rome, Georgia

Cathedral of San Agustin bell/clock tower in Laredo, Texas

Ferry Building, San Francisco, California

University of Texas Health Science Center Clock Tower in Laredo, Texas South America

Tower of the University of Saint Mark, Lima, Peru Europe

Big Ben, Palace of Westminster, London, England

Spasskaya Tower, Moscow

Einsiedeln Abbey, Switzerland

Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland

Clock Tower of Saint Nicolas church, Kozani, Greece

Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower, The University of Birmingham, England

Central railway station, Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Sibiu Evangelical Cathedral, Sibiu, [[Romania]

Gallery

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