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Commemorative clock tower

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Commemorative clock tower

Eventually Christchurch’s clock tower, originally intended for the Provincial Building, was installed on a new stone base commemorating Queen Victoria’s jubilee in 1897. By then the need for a visible public clock in the centre of Christchurch had become obvious. The site was the triangle between High, Manchester and Lichfield streets.

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Jock Phillips, Timekeeping – New Zealand mean time, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6690/commemorative-clock-tower (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.