Description
Merewether Memorial Tower clocks
| Project Name: |
Merewether Memorial Tower Clock
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| Location: |
Merewether Memorial Tower clocks,Tower, Karachi, Pakistan.
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| Project Description: |
4 Clock Movement, 4 feet clock, 1 Master Clock, 4 Sided Clock
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| Dial: | Iron Frame Of the Clock Faces |
| Client Website: | |
| Installed Date: |
5-6-2000
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| Sponsor Name: | 1st sponsor: Karachi Stock Exchange
2nd sponsor: Standard Chartered | Pakistan |
| Histroy: | The design of the Merewether Memorial employs the form of an Eleanor Cross and is in the English Medieval style. There are spires which could have served as a basis for the design of this memorial; for example, St. Mary at Bloxham, St. Peter at Kettering, St. Peter at Raunds and Meven St. Mary at Oxford. In fact, each one may have provided an ingredient or two for the design of this fine memorial tower. The Memorial Tower stands on a platform 44 feet square and rises to a height of 102 feet. It prominently displays the clock placed at the base of the spire, 70 feet from the ground. Each of the clock’s four faces is seven feet in diameter. The large bell installed at the time weighed three hundred weight and struck at every hour, while the smaller bells weighed one hundred weight each and marked every quarter of an hour |
