Clock tower
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This is an article on clock towers. For the video game series of the same name, see Clock Tower (series).
A clock tower is a tower built with one or more (often four) easily-seen clock faces.The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall, but many clock towers are free-standing.
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.
Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the twentieth century, most people did not have watches; clock towers were therefore placed near the centers of towns and were often the tallest structures there.
Three of the best-known clock towers are the clock tower which houses Big Ben (often itself colloquially referred to as Big Ben) of the Palace of Westminster in London, the Rajabai Tower in Mumbai, and the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
 The clock tower of The Chinese High School, a national monument of Singapore |
 The clock tower of Einsiedeln Abbey |
 McGraw Tower at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York |
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 The clock tower at the Palace of Westminster in London, England |
 The Rajabai Tower, a clock tower in South Mumbai, India |
 The Spasskaya Tower is the main tower with a through-passage on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin, overlooking Red Square |
 The Clock Tower at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong was originally part of the former Kowloon Station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. The station was demolished in the 1970s |
 Peace Tower, Parliament Hill Ottawa, Canada |
 The clock tower of Saint Nicolas church, in the center of the greek city, Kozani |
 A clock tower at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia |
 Central Terminal, Sydney, Australia |
 The old [Star Ferry] pier in Central, [Hong Kong] |
