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Beyond the former school and schoolmaster's house is the church, dominated by its 15th-century tower which is over eighty feet high.

A fine stone village a mile from Frome, Beckington has some superb stone houses and a church with an excellent Norman tower.

The fine Perpendicular Gothic 15th-century crossing tower dominates the church. The photographer is facing the chancel.

Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

A directory of the time states that 'the church of All Saints is a plain and ancient edifice of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and porch, and a small wooden tower with pinnacles, rising

One of the finest medieval churches in Dorset, with an outstanding decorated roof and Turberville family effigies, the tower (top) and Morton Chapel (centre) were added in the 16th century.

Just visible on the far right at the top of the hill is the day beacon, an 80ft stone tower which marks the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary, as the entrance is almost impossible

The Cotswold stone tower of St Andrews Church stands fittingly adjacent to the Market Cross, the scene of Castle Combe's once famous sheep market.

The clock tower shown here, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of what once was a wayside chapel.

The foundations of this 153ft-high tower were sunk 18ft into the chalk, and about 3,600 tons of Cornish granite were used to build it. The light is visible for 16 miles.

The tower is late 13th-century and the spire has chamfers which reach halfway up. The use of alternating bands of limestone and ironstone is noteworthy.

The Palace of Westminster is unchanged,apart from a missing pinnacle just to the right of the huge Victoria Tower.

The towers at each end of the viaduct can just be distinguished behind the bridge in photograph R67051. The viaduct was the first structure to cross the Runcorn Gap, and was built in the 1860s.

Much of the money for the gallery came from wealthy glass manufacturer Thomas Osler, whose firm made the famous glass fountain centrepiece for the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.The clock tower is

The lantern tower of St Botolph's dominates the town and the surrounding countryside. The river flows down into the Wash.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

This tower mill could be seen working from the St Ives to Cambridge train in the 1950s.

St Bartholomew's Church was mainly built during the 12th and 13th centuries, but its tower is 15th-century.

Behind it stands the square 15th-century embattled tower of Holy Trinity Church.

The top of the church tower fell in 1829, which gave it a castle-like appearance. It was not restored until the 1960s. The absence of cars in the square might indicate a Sunday morning.

St Anne's Church tower is visible behind the handsome Stepping Stones House. The stepping stones themselves look less serviceable now, but there is also a footbridge today.

To the right is Robin Hood's Tower; its ground floor contains the 11th-century St Nicholas'

In the foreground is the Grand Union Canal, with the houses of Blisworth and the 15th-century tower of the church to be seen on the opposite bank.