The former High Court Building () is a colonial-era building located at No. 89/133 Pansodan Street, between Maha Bandula Garden Street and Pansodan Street in

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, downtown

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

. Until 2006, the Supreme Court of Myanmar was located at this complex. The High Court Building was designed by architect James Ransome, construction of the High Court began in 1905 and was completed in 1911,''World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia'' By Marshall Cavendish, p. 633 and is noted for its colonial-era

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, including its

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure that house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another building ...

and its red-bricked exterior. The building is listed on the

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. Located near

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, the building faces the Independence Monument and the Maha Bandula Park.

Gallery

High Court Burma1.jpg, Panoramic view over the western side of Square ward building Yangon, Burmese High Court, Myanmar.jpg, Yangon High Court File:2016 Rangun, Dawny budynek Sądu Najwyższego (15).jpg, Seen across from the Maha Bandula Park File:Rangoon High Court lobby.jpg, Front lobby of the High Court shortly after World War II File:High Court Burma.png, Lobby staircase in 2012

Notes

References

* Falconer, John; Invernizzi, Luca; Kahrs, Daniel; Moore, Elizabeth; Tettoni, Luca Invernizzi; Birnbaum, Alfred; Cummings, Joe (2000). ''Burmese design & architecture''. Tuttle Publishing. * Reid, Robert; Grosberg, Michael (2005). ''Myanmar (Burma)''. Lonely Planet. Government buildings in Myanmar Government buildings completed in 1911 Former courthouses Buildings and structures in Yangon 1911 establishments in Burma {{Burma-struct-stub