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Built in the Irish style, the round tower dates from the 10th or 11th centuries and would have been used by the monks as a place of refuge during raids by pirates or Vikings.

As we turn right along Cornmarket Street, the most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

Nowadays, to the left beyond the cathedral are the tower blocks of the Barbican, completed in 1981. Blackfriars Bridge, dated 1869, screens the now part-demolished railway bridge of 1864.

This is the only church in East Anglia to have a detached Norman round tower. The rood screen still has paintings of saints, with delicate miniature hovering angels under the loft.

It was renamed the Crossroads Hotel when the house to the left was demolished and the hotel expanded, sporting a fine clock tower.

Greystoke Castle was built around a 14th-century pele tower in the Tudor style between 1838 and 1848 for the locally-powerful Greystoke family. The architect was Anthony Salvin.

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

The tower of St Mary's Church overlooks the town.

In 1840 a Mrs Carter died, leaving Abbot Hall, the second building on the site, to her wealthy niece, Miss Mary Lambert of Boarbank Hall.

The rocky approach to this prominent outcrop upon which stands the small tower and remains of a larger castle looks wild, lonely and romantic, and it must have seemed a solitary outpost at times.

A covered porch (just visible in the picture to the left of the tower) was added in 1905.

Stafford has two interesting churches.The Church of St Mary has an unusual octagonal tower: it was here that Isaac Walton was baptized in 1593.The other church, St Chad's, was said to be almost derelict

The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is the only church within city limits to be mentioned in the Domesday Book.The west tower and the spire date from the 15th century, though the latter was

The Clock Tower, constructed during the extensive restoration and alteration of the castle 1867-72, was a Burges-designed monument to the third Marquess and his extended family.

This street in a medieval and famous city is serenaded by the majestic Westgate Towers. New in Chaucer's time, they were built by Archbishop Sudbury and replaced a ruin on the same spot.

A tower was added in 1513. St Mary's was rebuilt in 1780.

This church is the largest church on the Gower. Originally founded in the 6th century by St Cenydd, the priory was ransacked by Viking invasions in the 10th century.

The drum towers were also used for accommodation, while the Constable's apartments were situated in the east gatehouse. The wall partly off-picture to the right is a section of the fortified dam.

In the distance, the tower of St Paul's church peers above the roof of the Globe Hotel. Nearby is the Perse School, established in 1625, and moved here from Free School Lane in 1890.

Mostly rebuilt by Thomas Lumby in the 1770s in a fairly correct Gothic, the church has a more cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick west tower and spire.

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The tower and spire of the parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert dominates the skyline in this market day picture.

Hammet Street, with its brick terrace houses, was laid out in 1788 off North Street, focusing on the magnificent late 15th-century tower of St Mary's church.