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The nave, transepts and the four west choir bays were built between 1093 and 1133; Bishop Hugh Pudsey added the Galilee Chapel at the western end in 1175; the two west towers were built between

The tall west tower has diagonal buttresses, with buttress shafts and pinnacles in relief. Nave and tower are Perpendicular.

It has a Norman flint-built round tower, and a shingled octagonal spire. It is one of the three Norman round towers of Sussex.

Farnham had been an ecclesiastical estate since the 7th century, but it was Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester from 1129-1171, who began building a castle when he ordered the raising of a motte and tower

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

This is another view of one of Newbury's best-loved local landmarks – the Clock Tower.

The south porch is 15th-century, but there is evidence of it being moved to its present position when the tower was built in the early 16th century.

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

General View 1890 New Shoreham was a prosperous medieval port with a superb parish church, St Mary de Haura, whose great central tower can be seen in this view.

This splendid Perpendicular church at Seend, near Devizes, is ashlar-faced; there are gargoyles, battlements and pinnacles, and a squat west tower.

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

Crosby Mill is a good example of a tower mill, a design that appeared after the post mill was established.

The corner shop is long gone, but the clock tower remains.

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

There is a twin-towered gatehouse to the landward side, and square towers at each corner of the curtain wall. There is little information as to who owned Pennard, or who even lived in it.

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

We can also see the distinctive square Tower Building to the right. The floating road was supported on pontoons that rose and fell with the tide, which is high in our photo.

The walls were 15ft thick, and like the gatehouses they were flanked by six towers. Beaumaris was, in fact, never completed.

The name Maidenhead means "the maidens' landing place"; this photograph depicts King Street and the town's splendid clock tower.

Hoghton Tower, set on a hill and visible for miles, dates from 1565. King James I beggared the Hoghtons by overstaying on a visit with all his retainers.

The Queen's Hotel is just to the right of the clock tower; it was one of the resort's main hotels at this time.

Heysham Tower was built by T J Knowles in about 1837, and it was the home of the Cawthra family.

St Augustine's church is of the Early English period, with a later Perpendicular embattled tower with pinnacles. It was restored in 1860.