One World - Protecting the most significant buildings, monuments and features of the Maltese islands (31)

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.