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The tower of Newbury's splendid parish church can be seen from various vantage points around the town.

Chalfont St Giles retains much more of its heritage and character than its southern neighbour, Chalfont St Peter, with a High Street lined with good buildings, a pond and the parish church tower peering

To the young in Leicester in 1949, the Clock Tower seemed like the universe, and life revolved around it guided by policemen on point duty.

A car is turning by the King's Head, with the eccentric Hadlow tower looming over the roofs in the background.

Close to the road, the solid but impressive ashlar tower dominates the immediate street scene with its substantial angled buttresses and crocketted finials; these are not 15th-century, but were added

This classic view shows to good advantage Worcester Cathedral's splendid central tower and the west window (designed c1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott).

After the abbey was destroyed, the tower was used as a bell tower for St James' Church, which, 16 years after this photograph was taken, became the cathedral for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

Originating from a 13th-century pele tower, the castle was largely rebuilt as a stately home during the 18th century.

Overlooking the Square is what appears to be the tower of a church. Actually, it is a bell tower, described by Arthur Mee as 'the glory of Evesham'.

Built on a motte which is about 48 feet high, the tower itself is just over 33 feet high.

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

The clock tower lies just off to the right.

The businesses shown in this photograph, Beynon Ltd, Edwards and Godding and WJ Daniel, have all closed, though the Town Hall and its famous clock tower remain.

The old church had a medieval nave and chancel, and its brick west tower, built around 1800, replaced a medieval timber bell tower.

From the junction with Silver Street and Gold Street you can spot the distinctive tall tower of a former boys school, now an educational centre.

The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old, while the top is more recent.

The church tower is that of St Saviour's at Larkhall, consecrated in 1832, with its tall west tower imitating medieval Somerset ones.

Abbot Lichfield, who built the Bell Tower, did not enjoy his creation for very long. Evesham Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539 - the same year that the tower was completed.

The walls and towers surrounding the county gaol, court house and Clifford's Tower were not medieval. They were in fact designed by Sydney Smith, Rector of Foston, and built in the 1820s.

The clock tower, with public lavatories at its base, was about 100 years old when this picture was taken. The tower commemorates the Public Health Act of 1848.

clock tower. The richly- treated upper part has sculpted figures representing the four winds. Visually, the tower also successfully unites the Law Courts with the City Hall.

It is very well maintained and has been created in what remains of the original dry moat that surrounded the Round Tower. St George's Tower can be seen in the background.

The somewhat gaunt appearance of this fortress-like building has been softened by the addition of a clock tower. It is now the Clock Tower Cafe, with little else changed.

It shows the cathedral's twin west towers: the south one was partially rebuilt in the early 13th century after a storm in 1210, and the other was rebuilt in 1900 after being ruinous since collapsing in