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Llandysul was an important Dark Age and medieval settlement, and the 13th-century church tower exemplifies this.

St Mary's parish church has a 16th-century tower with pinnacles attached to the crocketed spire; it can be seen for miles around.

The River Irwell, beside which Bacup lies, powered the first mills in the town, and the Irwell Mill, whose square tower rises at the back, was one of several providing employment in the town

The River Irwell, beside which Bacup lies, powered the first mills in the town, and the Irwell Mill, whose square tower rises at the back, was one of several providing employment in the town

Notice the prow of a Viking longboat in the clock-tower, a reminder of Sweyne Forkbeard and the city's Viking founders.

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