clock tower

plural clock towers

1. architectureA tower, usually in a prominent position, having a large clock in a high position, often with several faces.

   This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164

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   An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe (located within the tower on the second floor).

   1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Spirit of Invention”, in The Horizon History of China, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155

   However, the Victorian platform buildings all survive, and the station's iconic clock tower (built in 1899) was dismantled and rebuilt alongside the current frontage.

   2022 November 16, Paul Stephen, “Stations earn a deserved NRA ovation: Medium: Bolton”, in RAIL, number 970, page 48