clock tower

Definitions

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

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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).”

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

“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.”

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