A prominent landmark on the corner of King street and St. Andrews Street in Castle Douglas (Dumfries and Galloway), the Clock Tower was built 1934-35 to designs by the Kilmarnock-based architect William Forrest Valentine (1885-1957). A bronze plaque at ground-level records: 'The clock in this tower is the gift of Henry J. Hewat of Paterson, New Jersey, USA and Castle Douglas 6th May 1935'. Hewat was a native of Castle Douglas who had emigrated to the USA in 1893. The tower was built as a replacement for the old Town House steeple, originally built by Sir William Douglas, but destroyed by fire in 1892. A second clock tower met the same fate forty years later. This tower is now Category-C listed.
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