Birch Memorial Clock Tower
| Birch Memorial Clock Tower | |
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Menara Jam Peringatan Birch | |
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| General information | |
| Type | clock tower |
| Location | Ipoh, Kinta, Perak, Malaysia |
| Coordinates | 4°35′48.6″N 101°04′34.0″E / 4.596833°N 101.076111°ECoordinates: 4°35′48.6″N 101°04′34.0″E / 4.596833°N 101.076111°E |
| Opened | 1909 |
The Birch Memorial Clock Tower (Malay: Menara Jam Peringatan Birch) is a clock tower in Ipoh, Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia.[1][2]
History[]
The clock tower was constructed to commemorate James W. W. Birch, the first British Resident of the state of Perak and unveiled in 1909 at a cost of $25,000.
Architecture[]
The clock tower is located in a square with a portrait bust and four panels illustrative of the growth of civilization. It has a mother bell and four smaller bells which used to strike the chimes.
The growth of civilization[]
There are four panels each one of the depicting the exponents of the different stages of civilization:[3]
Panel A (North)
The stone age:
A Hunter, A Fisherman, A Woman spinning.
The iron age:
A man and a woman
The Early Eastern Peoples :
A Nubian with gold and ivory, A Chaldean Astrologer, A Woman making pottery, An Egyptian, An Assyrian, A Persian.
Panel B (West)
The Eastern Mediterranean:
Moses, David, A Phoenician, A woman representing the Agean civilization.
The Far East:
Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu.
Greece and Rome:
A woman representing Greek Art, Alexander the Great, Plato, Augustus.
Panel C (South)
The Byzantine Empire:
Constantine the Great.
Islam:
Mohammed.
The Age of Chivalry:
A Crusader.
The Age of Faith:
Saint Clare of Assisi
Gothic Art:
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Renaissance:
Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, Columbus.
The Reformation:
Martin Luther.
The Elizabethan Age:
William Shakespeare.
Panel D (East)
Modern Science, Art and Social Services:
Isaac Newton, William Harvey, James Watt, An unnamed Embroiderer, Beethoven, Robert Stephenson, Louis Daguerre, Florence Nightingale, Charles Darwin, Thomas Alva Edison, Joseph Lister.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Birch Memorial Clock Tower, Ipoh". perak.info. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
- ^ "www.mbi.gov.my/en/web/guest/menara-peringatan-birch;jsessionid=660967965CC38F830F4AEF84DDC13447". Archived from the original on 2015-11-22.
- ^ "J W W Birch Memorial Clock Tower And First Times Of Malaya Building, Ipoh" (PDF).
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- 1909 establishments in British Malaya
- Buildings and structures in Perak
- Clock towers in Malaysia
- Tourist attractions in Perak