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The west towers are built outside the line of the side aisles, making the façade twice as wide as it is high. The carvings on the west front date from about 1230.

The battlements are under repair, hence the flat top to the tower.

Behind is the tall tower of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union Convalescent Home, once the Clifton Hotel; the tower and the new wing were added in 1897.

This is the last and most northerly of just over a hundred Martello towers, built to keep Napoleon at bay. This one was constructed well after the invasion threat.

This stretch of the High Street is wider than the rest, probably because the market was originally held here; the market was moved into the Guild Hall with its clock tower on the left, designed by Withers

To the right of the bungalow on the left, which now has four dormer windows, is the roof of the Club Union Home, which was then topped with a small tower; this tower was demolished in the 1960s

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

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

The north-east tower is known as Belted Will's Tower, named after Lord William, who as Warden of the Marches took great delight in hanging wrongdoers from trees in view of the castle.

Above are 14th-century west towers, and beyond the great central tower soars, which can be seen from many locations in the low-rise town and beyond.

In 1859 Walter Barton May built a 170ft-tall tower at Hadlow Castle, and in 1951 it became protected by a special preservation order. The tower is very prominent in the mid-Kent landscape.

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

It has a 14th-century tower, but most of St Cuthbert's dates from c1860. A charming tradition calls the children to sing from the top of the tower at Easter.

Built on the site of a failed attempt to erect a structure to rival the Eiffel Tower, this building, apart from its twin pepper-pot towers, cannot be said to be a thing of great beauty.

In the centre foreground of the picture stands St Peter's church, intact at this time, built out of locally quarried Triassic red sandstone and identified by its unusual helm-roof tower.

It was an old Border stronghold, the oldest part of which is the Dacre Tower, an old pele tower, which dates from the 14th century.

The Norman round tower has a 15th-century octagonal top with battlements. Recent repairs have shown that there is an earlier tower beneath the outer skin of flints.

Beyond is the late 15th-century church of St Mary; its superb west tower owes its scale and magnificence to the town's medieval wool prosperity, and is something of a copy of Wells Cathedral's sublime

Today, the thick coating of ivy on the tower and all the ornamental shrubs and trees are gone, allowing the tower on its mound to be seen in all its glory.

Centre left is the combined police and fire station in Tower Street, referred to earlier. Note the six-storey tower.

It is the largest church in Ireland, with a 143ft tower (Minot's tower) of 1370. The 100ft spire was added in the 17th century by George Simple.

Construction of the hexagonal outer bailey curtain wall, its associated towers and gates began in about 1315, though the northern gateway is thought not to have been completed.

The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.