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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 which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
Name City/Town State/Province Built Image Notes Sundarbai Khandelwal Tower: Akola: Maharashtra: ... Gujarat: 4 April 1915 Chimnabai Clock Tower: Vadodara: Gujarat: 1896
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The Clock Tower, Sialkot (Urdu: سیالکوٹ گھنٹہ گھر) is a clock tower situated in Saddar Bazar, Sialkot Cantonment, Pakistan. It was built in 1922. It was built in 1922. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
And clock tower was named Northbrook Tower after the name of Northbrook, a former Viceroy of India (1872–3). This building was completed, opened and offices shifted in 1888. Hall was named 'Jinnah Hall' after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and is used for office meetings, cultural programs, and is open to the public. With the passage of ...
The Chimnabai Clock Tower, also known as the Raopura Tower, is a clock tower situated in the Raopura area of Vadodara, Gujarat, India. It was completed in 1896 and named in memory of Chimnabai I (1864–1885), a queen and the first wife of Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda State. It was built in Indo-Saracenic architecture style.
As a compensation of the demolition, the clock tower was erected at the cost of ₹ 15,000 (equivalent to ₹ 3.8 million or US$46,000 in 2023). [1] [2] It was inaugurated on 4 April 1915 [1] by prince Jayasingrao Sayajirao Gaekwad. In 2018, the Siddhpur municipality has proposed to develop the tower as a monument. [1] The inscription on the ...
Clock Tower was constructed in 1901. [2] The then-Deputy Commissioner initiated its construction, equipping it with large clocks on all four sides for public time-telling. [ 2 ] In 1906, a bell was added to the tower, ringing hourly and audible throughout the city.