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Caption For Branston, Church C1955

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

Caption For Stanford On Avon, All Saints Church C1965

Even with its spikey pinnacles, the tower is unremarkable. The east end has been worked over more than once, firstly rebuilt in 1778, and then again in 1895.

Caption For Churchill, Clock Tower C1955

This fine clock tower was built to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

Caption For Cove Hithe, Church And Ruins 1892

The original church was left in ruins after the Civil War, and the smaller replacement was built within the ruins, its tower a useful navigational aid for mariners offshore.

Caption For Dublin, The Castle, The State Entrance 1897

Dublin Castle remained the centre of British power in Ireland from King John's time onwards. The Norman castle burnt down in 1684 and little survives.

Caption For Kingsbury, The Church C1955

The Norman nave survives, but the chancel and tower were added in the 13th century.

Caption For Witchampton, Village 1904

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

Caption For Lazonby, From Church Tower C1955

The view across the village from the tower of the parish church of St Nicholas.

Caption For Painswick, St Mary's Church C1965

Its tower houses an impressive peal of 12 bells, and in the nave are an ornamented Tudor tomb and a 17th-century font.

Caption For Buckfast, St Mary's Abbey 1922

Here, the abbey is almost complete save for the tower.

Caption For Accrington, St James' Church C1945

The chapel was built in 1763; it had no tower, and was considerably shorter.

Caption For Garstang, High Street C1950

Just beyond the Market House stands the Town Hall, its prominent clock tower topped by an intricate weather vane.

Caption For Reading, St Lawrence's Church 1896

The tower lost its pinnacles through bomb damage in 1943, which also destroyed Market Arcade in the distance.

Caption For Reading, Kings Road 1924

The Co-op building on the right of 1900 survives, bereft of its tower.

Caption For East Lyng, St Bartholomew's Church C1955

St Bartholomew's Church has a beautiful Somerset tower.

Caption For Wednesfield, The Canal And Flats C1965

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

Caption For Raglan, The Castle, South Side And Keep 1893

William Herbert's tower-keep is seen here on the right of the picture.

Caption For Horndean, The Village C1955

The company began in 1847, and the brewery tower dates back to 1869.

Caption For Billericay, High Street C1965

The brick tower of St Mary Magdalene's church dates from the 15th century.

Caption For Wickham Market, The Hill C1960

The former Crown Inn is at the end of the row (centre), beneath the octagonal church tower with its wooden leaded spire. To the right, the building with a hipped roof is now three shops.

Caption For Basildon, Industrial Estate C1965

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

Caption For Pitsea, St Michael's Church C1955

The 15th-century tower was spared, and now serves a new religion: it supports a mobile phone mast.

Caption For Eaton Socon, The Church C1960

The tower has buttresses banded with light courses of limestone and darker courses of ironstone; inside there is an interesting spiral stair to the north chapel.

Caption For Gaywood, The Clock Tower C1965

The Clock Tower is an uncommon form of memorial to the fallen of World War I: it was first erected in 1920, and has since been moved slightly to avoid obstructing the traffic.