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These are the parapets of the lower bailey looking towards Marten`s Tower, which gets its name from the prisoner it housed in the 17th century.

The workman on the scaffolding against the tower, however, is more probably repairing the ravages of time, the most relentless vandal of all.

St Stephen's has a west tower with a spire and was almost entirely altered internally in the late Victorian period.

It stands below Efford Down, on top of which is the Storm Tower, also built by Acland.

Beyond the bank with its pyramid-roofed tower are the elegant terra cotta and brick buildings flanking the entrance to Queen Victoria Street.

The steep-roofed tower behind the chimney stack had at last been completed.

This view looks up Highbridge Street from the river bridge to the Abbey church and its impressive 16th-century west tower.

The first phase dates from 1829; it was greatly enlarged in 1857, and was rounded off with a splendid clock tower in 1897.

Now occupied by an engineering firm, it is an interesting composition with its 5-bay arcaded 'cloister', grand dormers and spired clock tower.

The A361 Frome to Trowbridge road separates St Laurence's church, with its rugged and battlemented 15th-century west tower, from the rest of the village.

The towering and somewhat two-dimensional timbered front of Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to

St Andrew's is unique in having a peal of 5 bells in the mediaeval west tower and a second peal of 8 bells in the Victorian east tower.

Though it features a tower, the internal arrangement was not planned around a grand staircase or central hall, but around corridors.

The tower was added as a memorial to Admiral Kepple, who had lived in the village and was a church warden. There is a peal of ten bells.

In this view the curious stumpy 14th-century steeple sits atop a 13th-century tower.

Sutton on Sea's parish church, St Clement's, is Lincolnshire's very own Leaning Tower of Pisa, doubtless owing to its sandy foundations having settled since it was built in 1819.

The tower was raised in height in 1892 in the memory of H A Brassey. Just down the road to the west is a Carmelite friary, which is much visited by those in search of tranquillity and meditation.

The tower looks down over the attractive village with its timber-framed cottages and Georgian houses.

The central tower of the castle dates from a licence of 1454 when the thane was permitted to erect Cawdor 'with walls and ditches and equip the summit with turrets and means of defence, with warlike provisions

Raised above the road, behind a rather forbidding local stone boundary wall, the rather stumpy three-stage crenellated west tower is all that remains of the medieval church.

The fine 14th-century church of St Mary, built of local sandstone, has a Perpendicular tower with dumpy crocketed pinnacles and full-length aisles of the same width as the nave and chancel.

The isolated tower that stands in the middle of the Town Square was once attached to the parish church, which was built on the site of Coleford's old Market House in 1821.

The tower of the parish church was rebuilt in 1709.

The view is up All Saints Road (left) to the tower of Wyke Regis parish church and the trees around the Rectory.