List of clock towers in India

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

List

Name	City/Town	State/Province	Built	Image	Notes
Sundarbai Khandelwal Tower	Akola	Maharashtra	1962 (12 February)
Aligarh Clock Tower	Aligarh	Uttar Pradesh			[2]
Bahraich Clock Tower	Bahraich	Uttar Pradesh
Clock Tower Bijnor	Bijnor	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 Main Building The Clock Tower	Pilani	Rajasthan	1964
Aberdeen Clock Tower	Port Blair	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Ghadi Chowk, Raipur	Raipur	Chhattisgarh	1995 (19 December)
Saifai Clock Tower	Saifai	Uttar Pradesh
Sardarshahar Clock Tower	Sardarshahar	Rajasthan
Mohamedally Tower	Siddhpur	Gujarat	1915 (4 April)
Golden Rock Railway Workshop	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu
NIT Trichy Clock Tower	Tiruchirapalli	Tamil Nadu
Ghanta Ghar	Ujjain	Madhya Pradesh
King George Hospital Clock Tower	Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh	1923
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]
Ghanta Ghar	Srinagar	Jammu & Kashmir	1980
New Market Clock Tower	Kolkata	West Bengal	1874		It was commissioned alongside the construction of the New Market itself. The tower is a prominent feature of the market, known for its Victorian Gothic style and red brick construction.

References

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