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Its architectural focus is the domed Market Hall and St Mary's Church with its tall spire emerging from a somewhat squat tower.

Most of the present church dates from the 19th century, although the tower was built in 1640. There is a memorial inside to Admiral George Anson, who is buried here.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

The 1897 Diamond Jubilee clock tower survives outside The Vale pub.

The brand-new tower of the Town Hall can be seen above the far shops in North End, which today is a pedestrianised road.

Note the mock-up of the cathedral tower.

Construction of St Andrew's started in 1370 and the tower was built by Thomas Yogge in 1481.

The pinnacled tower and pyramid roof of St Petrock's church is seen through the trees, and the village mill and its waterwheel are on the left.

Note the high telephone pole behind the building, and the recently built tower of St Martin's church in the distance.

Two prams represent the only traffic in St Austell's attractive shopping street in this scene, which is dominated by the richly carved tower of Holy Trinity church.

Sad to say, the tower of All Saints' Church is not safe at present, so it is not possible to climb to the top and compare this photograph with the reality of present-day Northampton.

The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.

The church, except for the tower and chancel, was rebuilt by William Layer in c1424-45. The south porch was removed for road widening in 1831, and is now a folly at Nowton Park.

This aerial view of the South Yorkshire town of Barnsley centres on the imposing white stone Town Hall with its monolithic central clock tower.

grander affair, the hotel opened in the 1870s; it adopted a fashionable French architectural style, marked by a complex roof line with ornate dormer windows in a steep mansarded roof, and pavilion-roofed towers

Concealed from view behind the shops on the left is the landmark Perpendicular tower of the church.

The imposing tower of this fine building held a car- illon of twelve bells which played a different tune for each day of the week.

Cartmel Priory has been a tourist attraction for a long time, partly because of its belfry, which is constructed diagonally across the tower below.

We can just see the spire of the church of St Michael and all Angels towering above the thatched cottage (centre).

St Peter's Church has never had a steeple: in this instance, the word steeple derives from the 13th-century word 'stepel', meaning an unfortified tower, which the church does have.

The clock tower on the left was added to the Town Hall in 1834. The refurbished building was formerly the Corn Exchange, then the Guildhall.

Tom Tower is one of the college's most treasured architectural features, as well as a famous landmark on the Oxford skyline.

The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains. St Martin's was the city church and a meeting point in times of war and victory. There is a memorable view of Oxford from the top.

Eight miles offshore is the Eddystone Lighthouse, the fifth tower to stand on the famous reef and completed in 1882.