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clock tower
Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...
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turret clock
A turret clock or tower clock is a clock designed to be mounted high in the wall of a building, usually in a clock tower, in public buildings such as churches, university buildings, and town halls. As a public amenity to enable the community ...
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Clock Tower may also refer to:
Buildings
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Clock Tower, Anantapur
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Clock Tower of Ateca
The Clock Tower of Ateca is a structure in Ateca, Spain. A leaning tower of Mudejar style, it was built in 1560 on an ancient medieval tower of the castle of Ateca. The work was carried out by the masters Domingo and the Morisco Ameçot, a resid ...
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Clock Tower, Brighton
The Clock Tower (sometimes called the Jubilee Clock Tower) is a free-standing clock tower in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1888 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, the distinct ...
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Clock Tower, Erode
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Clock Tower, Faisalabad
The Faisalabad Clock Tower is a clock tower in Faisalabad, Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, Pakistan, and is one of the oldest monuments still standing in its original state from the period of the British Raj. It was built in 1905 by the British, when th ...
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Clock Tower, Herne Bay
The Clock Tower, Herne Bay (built 1837), is a Grade II listed landmark in Herne Bay, Kent, England. It is believed to be one of the earliest purpose-built, free-standing clock towers in the United Kingdom. It was funded by Mrs Ann Thwaytes, and ...
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Clock Tower, Hong Kong
The Clock Tower is a landmark in Hong Kong. It is located the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon station on the Kowloon–Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon- ...
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Clock Tower (Iquique)
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Clock Tower, Korçë
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Clock Tower of Murshidabad
The Clock Tower of Murshidabad (locally known just as ''Clock Tower'' or ''Ghari Ghar'', also known as ''Big Ben of Murshidabad'') is a clock tower in the Nizamat Fort Campus in West Bengal, India. The clock tower stands in the garden space bet ...
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Clock Tower (Podgorica)
The Clock Tower ( cnr, Сат кула, Sat kula; Turkish: Saat Kulesi) of Podgorica, Montenegro, is located at ''Bećir Beg Osmanagić square'', in the Stara Varoš neighborhood. It is one of the very few Ottoman landmarks that survived the b ...
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Clock Tower (Rome, Georgia)
The Clock Tower in Rome, Georgia is one of the oldest landmarks in the city. The Clock Tower is located at the summit of Clock Tower Hill (also known as Neely Hill)
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Clock Tower, Sialkot
upThe clock tower in 2015, Sialkot, Pakistan
The Sialkot Clock Tower ( ur, ) also known as Iqbal Square ( ur, ), is situated in Saddar Bazar, Sialkot Cantonment, Pakistan. It was built in 1922.Clock Tower, St Albans
The Clock Tower is a Grade I listed belfry in St Albans, England which was constructed between 1403 and 1412, believed to have been completed in 1405. It has been claimed to be the only remaining medieval town belfry in England. Its construction h ...
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Clock Tower, Tirana
The Clock Tower of Tirana (), was built in 1822 in Tirana, Albania by Et'hem bey Mollaj, a Bejtexhinj poet who also finished the Et'hem Bey Mosque next to the clock tower. Watchmaster Ismail Tufina was the first to assemble the Tirana clock mec ...
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Clock Tower of Ulcinj
The Clock Tower of Ulcinj ( Montenegrin: ''Sahat kula, Сахат кула'', , Turkish: ''Saat Kulesi''), was built in Ulcinj, Montenegro in 1754 during the Ottoman Empire
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Clock Tower (Westminster), the former name of the tower containing Big Ben
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Deira Clocktower
Deira Clocktower ( ar, دوار الساعة ديرة), originally referred to as the Dubai Clock Tower, is a roundabout in Deira, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Telegraph newspaper listed Dubai Clock Tower among the 17 most beautiful cl ...
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The Clocktower (restaurant)
The Clocktower is an American restaurant located at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City. Despite its name it is on the second floor of the building, not in the structure's clock towe ...
, restaurant in New York, USA
Arts, entertainment and media
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''Clock Tower'' (series), a horror adventure video game series
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''Clock Tower'' (1995 video game)
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''Clock Tower'' (1996 video game)
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Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within''
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Clock Tower 3
is a survival horror video game co-produced by Capcom and Sunsoft for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2002, it is the fourth installment in the Clock Tower (series), ''Clock Tower'' series, and the first and only video game directed by Japanese ...
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Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England, and the name is frequently extended to refer also to the clock and the clock tower. The officia ...
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List of clock towers
This is a list of clock towers by location, including only 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 ...
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