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List of clock towers in India

This is a list of notable clock towers in India.[1]

List

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Name City/Town State/Province Built Image Notes
Sundarbai Khandelwal Tower Akola Maharashtra 12 February 1962  
Aligarh Clock Tower Aligarh Uttar Pradesh   [2]
Bahraich Clock Tower Bahraich Uttar Pradesh  
Ghantaghar Bhagalpur Bihar  
Chennai Central railway station Chennai Tamil Nadu 1900  
Clock tower Chennai Tamil Nadu 1948   [3][4]
Ripon Building Chennai Tamil Nadu 1913  
Annamalai University Clock Tower Chidambaram Tamil Nadu  
TNAU Clock Tower Coimbatore Tamil Nadu  
Ghantaghar Dehradun Uttarakhand 1953   [5]
Ghantaghar Delhi National Capital Territory 1870   Partially collapsed in 1950 and subsequently dismantled
Ghantaghar Delhi National Capital Territory  
Hari Nagar Ghantaghar Delhi National Capital Territory
Clock Tower, Erode Erode Tamil Nadu  
Clock tower Faizabad Uttar Pradesh  
Ram Narain Periwal Clock Tower Fazilka Punjab
Ghantaghar Gorakhpur Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh 1930
Clock Tower of Haridwar Haridwar Uttarakhand 1938  
IIEST Shibpur clock tower Howrah West Bengal  
Hooghly Imambara clock tower Hooghly West Bengal 1861
Mahboob Chowk Clock Tower Hyderabad Telangana 1892   [6][7]
Secunderabad Clock Tower Hyderabad Telangana 1897   [8]
Shah Ali Banda Clock Tower Hyderabad Telangana 1904
Sultan Bazar Clock Tower Hyderabad Telangana 1865 [9]
Ghanta Ghar Jodhpur Rajasthan  
Clock tower Kalimpong West Bengal  
Clock Tower at Christ Church Kasauli Himachal Pradesh  
Lake Town Clock Tower Lake Town, Kolkata West Bengal
Chinnakada Clock Tower Kollam Kerala 1944  
Lawrence School, Lovedale Clock Tower Lovedale Tamil Nadu
Husainabad Clock Tower Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 1881   [10]
Chaura Bazaar clock tower Ludhiana Punjab
Clock Tower, Meerut Meerut   [11]
Mirzapur Clock Tower Mirzapur Uttar Pradesh  
Rajabai Tower Mumbai Maharashtra 1878  
Ghari Ghar Murshidabad West Bengal  
Clock tower Nagercoil Tamil Nadu  
Lytton Memorial Clock Tower Nahan Himachal Pradesh 1877 The Lytton memorial was built in 1877 by Raja Shamsher Prakash commemorating Lord Lytton's visit to Nahan .
BITS-Pilani Clock Tower Pilani Rajasthan  
Aberdeen Clock Tower Port Blair Andaman and Nicobar Islands  
Ghadi Chowk, Raipur Raipur Chhattisgarh 19 December 1995
Saifai Clock Tower Saifai Uttar Pradesh  
Sardarshahar Clock Tower Sardarshahar Rajasthan  
Mohamedally Tower Siddhpur Gujarat 4 April 1915  
Golden Rock Railway Workshop Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu  
NIT Trichy Clock Tower Tiruchirapalli Tamil Nadu  
Ghantaghar Ujjain Madhya Pradesh
King George Hospital Clock Tower Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh 1923  
Mohamedally Tower Siddhpur Gujarat 4 April 1915  
Chimnabai Clock Tower Vadodara Gujarat 1896   It was constructed from the funds raised by the citizens of Baroda State and named after Chimnabai I (1864–1885), a queen and the first wife of Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda State.[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ Singh, Dr Yatindra Pal (2021). Clock towers of India. Blue Rose Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-9-35427-256-1.
  2. ^ Singh, Dr Yatindra Pal (2021). "1. Aligarh". Clock towers of India. Blue Rose Publishers. pp. 6–7. ISBN 978-9-35427-256-1.
  3. ^ Peter, Petlee (2012-05-01). "Historic clock tower in shambles". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  4. ^ M., Serena Josephine (2018-09-27). "North Chennai's iconic clock towers stop ticking". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  5. ^ Mishra, Ishita (2019-03-05). "Frozen in time: This clock hasn't ticked for a year". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 2019-03-06. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  6. ^ "After decades of neglect, Hyd's 126-year-old Mahboob Chowk clock starts ticking again". The News Minute. 2018-10-01. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  7. ^ Khalidi, Omar. A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India (PDF). p. 32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-13.
  8. ^ Khalidi, Omar. A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India (PDF). p. 36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-13.
  9. ^ Khalidi, Omar. A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India (PDF). p. 34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-13.
  10. ^ Fredrick, Oliver (2017-05-28). "Lucknow's historic Hussainabad clock tower, others waiting to catch up with time". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  11. ^ Singh, Dr Yatindra Pal (2021). "39. Meerut". Clock towers of India. Blue Rose Publishers. p. 98. ISBN 978-9-35427-256-1.
  12. ^ Gazetteer of the Baroda State: Volume II,Administration. Baroda: G. H. Desai. 1923. p. 465. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  13. ^ "Raopura Tower". gujarattourism.com. Gujarat Tourism. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
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