List of clock towers
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.
Africa
Egypt
Nigeria
South Africa
- Clock Tower, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
Americas
Argentina
Aruba
- Willem III Tower at Fort Zoutman, Oranjestad
Barbados
Brazil
- Central do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
- Júlio Prestes Station, São Paulo
- Luz Station, São Paulo
Canada
Alberta
- Edmonton City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta
- Memorial Clock Tower (Cenotaph), Wainwright, Alberta
British Columbia
Ontario
- Brampton City Hall, Brampton, 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
- former Toronto Fire Department Hose Station # 8, Toronto
- Press Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto
Quebec
- Gare du Palais, Quebec City, Quebec
- Montreal Clock Tower, Quebec
- Place d'Armes Clock Tower, Montreal, Quebec
Mexico
Peru
- Tower of the University of Saint Mark, Lima
United States
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Clock tower of Chicago's Wrigley Building from Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Asia
Hong Kong
- The Clock Tower at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong was part of the former Kowloon Station
- The old Star Ferry pier in Central, Hong Kong
India
- Ghantaghar, Chandni Chowk, Delhi
- Ram Narain Periwal Clock Tower, Fazilka, Punjab
- Clock Tower, Chaura Bazaar, Ludhiana, Punjab
- Rajabai Tower, South Mumbai
- Secunderabad Clock Tower, Hyderabad
- Chinnakada Clock Tower, Kollam, Kerala
- Central Clock Tower, Erode
- Ghanta Ghar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
- BITS-Pilani Clock Tower, Pilani
- Lawrence School, Lovedale Clock Tower,[1]Ooty, Tamil Nadu
- Husainabad Clock Tower, Husainabad, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Ghanta Ghar, Subzi Mandi, Delhi
- Hari Nagar Ghanta Ghar, Near Hari Nagar, Delhi
- REC Trichy /National Institute Of Technology, Tiruchirapalli Clock Tower,
- Aligarh Clock Tower, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
- Meerjapur Ghantaghar, (Mirzapur), Uttar Pradesh
- Clock Tower, Bengal Engineering and Science University,Shibpur, Howrah
- Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Indonesia
Iran
- Ali Al-Ridha Clock Tower, Mashhad
- Shams ol-emare, Tehran
- Saat Tower, Tabriz
- Tabriz city hall, Tabriz
Israel
Japan
Lebanon
- Collège Saint Joseph - Antoura's Clock Tour, Antoura.
- American University of Beirut's College Hall Clock, Beirut
- Abd Clock Tower on Nejme Square, Beirut
- Hamidiyyeh Clock Tower, Beirut
- Al-Tell Clock Tower, Tripoli
- Our Lady of Salvation Clock Tower, Zahlé
Malaysia
- Malay College Kuala Kangsar Clock Tower, Perak
- Sultan Abdul Samad Building, Kuala Lumpur
- Tan Beng Swee Clock Tower, Stadhuys Square, Malacca
- Jubilee Clock Tower, Penang
- Birch Memorial Tower, Ipoh, Perak
- Malayan Railway Building, Penang
- Teluk Intan Leaning Tower, Teluk Intan, Perak
- Atkinson Clock Tower, Kota Kinabalu
- Parit Buntar Clock Tower, Daerah Kerian
Nepal
Pakistan
- Cunningham Clock Tower, Peshawar
- Merewether Memorial Tower, Karachi
- Clock Tower, Faisalabad
- Clock Tower, Sialkot
- Ghanta Ghar Clock Tower Multan
- Nishtar Clock Tower Multan
- Clock Tower, Hyderabad
- Clock Tower, Sukkur, Sindh
Philippines
- Manila City Hall Clock Tower, Manila
- Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene Clock Tower, Quiapo, Manila
- University of Santo Tomas Main Building, Sampaloc, Manila
Singapore
- Clock Tower Building of The Chinese High School, a national monument of Singapore
- Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall
Sri Lanka
- Old Colombo Lighthouse
- Galle Clock Tower
- Jaffna Clock Tower
- Kandy Clock Tower
- Khan Clock Tower
- Koch Memorial Clock Tower
Myanmar
- High Court (Burma)
Saudi Arabia
- Royal Mecca Clock Tower
United Arab Emirates
Europe
Albania
Austria
Denmark
Greece
- Clock Tower of Saint Nicolas church, Kozani, Greece
Finland
France
Germany
Lithuania
Montenegro
Romania
Russia
- Spasskaya Tower, Moscow
Serbia
- Clock Gate, Kalemegdan, Belgrade
Slovakia
Switzerland
- Einsiedeln Abbey
- Grimmenturm, Zürich
- Zytglogge, Bern
Turkey
- Büyük Saat, Adana
- Dolmabahçe Clock Tower, Istanbul
- Etfal Hospital Clock Tower, Istanbul
- İzmir Clock Tower, İzmir
- İzmit Clock Tower, İzmit
- Nusretiye Clock Tower, Istanbul
- Yıldız Clock Tower, Istanbul
Ukraine
- Simferopol railway station, Simferopol
United Kingdom
- Bank Hall Clock Tower, Bretherton, Lancashire, England
- Central Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland
- City Hall, Cardiff, Wales
- Civic Centre, Southampton, England
- Clock Tower, Herne Bay, Kent, England - probably oldest in the UK
- Clock Tower, Clevedon, England
- Clock tower, Redcar, Cleveland, England
- Council House, Nottingham, England
- Elizabeth 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
- Jubilee clock, Weymouth, Dorset, England
- King's Cross railway station, 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
- 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.
Coonabarraben clock tower. NSW, Australia