One World - Protecting the most significant buildings, monuments and features of the Maltese islands (31)
The Mtarfa clock tower
The Mtarfa clock tower was built in 1895 as part of the ex-British Military complex. It is located on Clock Tower Street at one end of barrack block D (now converted into private residences).
This tower has a Florentine appearance with a buttressed base of quarry-faced stone and a cordon at the second storey level. Each corner is pilastered and supports a stone balcony with triple mould corbels. Each balcony is linked to each other by a walkway with stone balustrades, where the arched doors are located.
Above each arch are the four faces of the clock. The tower is crowned by a machicolation-type of attic band parapet superimposed by a crenellated parapet. The clock's mechanism which was stalled for a number of years was repaired by volunteers in August 2008.
Mepa scheduled the Mtarfa Clock Tower as a Grade 1 national monument as per Government Notice no. 628/08 in the Government Gazette dated July 12, 2008.
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Jimmy Magro
Sep 1st 2009, 14:02
I suggest to the The Times to show picturs of the ex-isolation hospital and the three properties near the Matfa Old People's Home. This is a scandal. The first building is protected by MEPA and is being left to deteroriate and burned.
I suggest readers to take a look at this news item on our website:
http://www.lca.org.mt/pages/iseFullArticle.asp?id=260
Any further cmments are superflous.
Galea. L
Sep 1st 2009, 10:26
Once again we are having reports about monuments etc without an accompanying photo. Is it so difficult to provide a photo?