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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.
The central hotel tower, which is the Mecca Clock Royal Tower, is the fourth-tallest building and sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. [1] The clock tower contains the Clock Tower Museum that occupies the top four floors of the tower.
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 ...
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 ...
IIEST Shibpur clock tower Howrah: West Bengal: Hooghly Imambara clock tower Hooghly: West Bengal: 1861 Mahboob Chowk Clock Tower: Hyderabad: Telangana: 1892 [6] [7] Secunderabad Clock Tower: Hyderabad: Telangana: 1897 [8] Shah Ali Banda Clock Tower: Hyderabad: Telangana: 1904 Sultan Bazar Clock Tower: Hyderabad: Telangana: 1865 [9] Ghanta Ghar ...
10th tallest freestanding clock tower [102] 79: Helsinki Central Station: 48.5 m (159 ft) 4: No: 1914: Tower Building: Railway Station: Finland: Helsinki [103] [104] 80: Montreal Clock Tower: 45 m (148 ft) 4: No: 1922: Freestanding Tower: Clock Tower: Canada: Montreal: 11th tallest freestanding clock tower. Clock faces are 3.6 m (12 ft) [105 ...
In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
Prag Mahal is named after Rao Pragmalji II, who commissioned it and construction began in 1865. [1] [2] It was designed by Colonel Henry St Clair Wilkins in what the local tourist office describes as the Italian Gothic style, [3] although it would be better described as a Romanesque architecture twist on the Indo-Saracenic Revival style, and many Italian artisans were involved in its ...