Clock Tower, Marine Garden, Joymount, Carrickfergus, Co.Antrim

The clock tower stands within a landscaped area called Marine Garden, overlooking Belfast Lough to the southeast. Constructed between 1960 and 1979, it is a free-standing concrete structure with a stone-clad base, representing a bold modernist design in this coastal location. The tower's design has been altered by a later addition of a fountain and surrounding stonework, which detracts from its original aesthetic.

The tower is set on a triangular stone-clad base which supports a cantilevered, painted concrete triangular slab. A further concrete wall abuts the base to the east, creating a corridor accessible via a steel gate to the southeast. This corridor features two square-headed door openings with timber plank doors. The slender concrete clock tower itself rises approximately 10 metres, with clock faces displaying "MARINE GARDEN" in raised metal lettering, and is situated to the northeast and west.

To the east of the base, a former raised planting bed is enclosed by a low rendered wall, which has been stone-clad and now incorporates a marble-clad pyramid surmounted by a bronze urn. A low rendered wall abuts the south apex of the clock tower, continuing southwest to enclose the garden. A lawned area runs along the south side of this wall, bordered to the public footpath by a geometrically designed concrete kerb. The garden is formally entered to the north via a pair of stone-clad piers topped with ball finials and a steel arch.

The clock tower has no roof. The walls are cast concrete, and there are no windows. This memorial building is located within a conservation area. A stone-clad wall enclosing a marble-clad fountain feature was added around 1990. Though having no documented historical information, the tower’s style suggests a later twentieth-century design, likely the early 1970s.