Search Results

The tower of St Swithun's church, very much a landmark, shows where the old town is centred.

It stands between the Great Tower on the left and Buckden Towers on the right, built in 1872 for Marshall Snelgrove.

It was Sir William Keith, Marischal of Scotland, who built a tower house at Dunnottar in the late 14th century, and is said to have been excommunicated for his troubles by the Bishop of St Andrews for

Founded in c1200, Fonmon is thought to have comprised two round towers, a square tower or keep and a curtain wall.

It is described in the Department of the Environment List of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: 'Large round tower and lower square tower flanking gateway with machicolated crenellated parapets

Beyond Holy Trinity's Anglo-Saxon tower, the town hall's mighty tower closes the vista superbly: another example of its powerful contribution to the townscape of Colchester.

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

Magdalen College 1890 A classic Victorian picture of Oxford, which shows a punt on the Cherwell and the striking Perpendicular bell tower of Magdalen College in the background.

All Saints' was gradually established between the 13th and 15th century, but was laid in ruins during the Civil War - the Royalists used the tower as lookout over the fields.

The medieval church building was extensively restored in 1876, but the tower is much older. Graffiti on the bells from 1595 include an anchor and shop's mitre.

This chapel is sited just above the abbey ruins, which we can just see in the centre of the picture beyond and below the church tower. The tower has since been removed.

The corners of the squat tower of St Mary's are adorned with ornate buttresses. The lower part of the tower is medieval; the upper part was rebuilt after it collapsed in 1608.

Kirkhead Tower c1965 The folly of Kirkhead Tower stands on a headland overlooking the small coastal village of Allithwaite, which takes its name from a Norse settler named Eilifr.

The view looking beyond the Lansdowne Hotel and the Grand Hotel is now dominated by South Cliff Tower, an eighteen-storey block of flats about which the words 'sore thumb' come unbidden to mind: an example

The tower is late Norman, except for the top; the arcades are Early English, and the aisle wall and windows, the clerestory, and the north chapel are Perpendicular.

The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

In March 1943, one mile to the east of Reculver Towers was cordoned off, and on 11 April Wing Commander Guy Gibson tested the Barnes Wallis 'bouncing bomb' in Reculver Bay.

This view looks across the city, past Cow Tower. The great cathedral spire dominates the view, with the square block of the castle on the left and St Peter Mancroft's tower in between.

This Victorian photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse and was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.

Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared. The foliage clump in the water is still here a hundred years later.

The tower of 1756 records churchwardens and masons. Of interest is the tomb of local benefactor, 'Francis Douce, Doctor of Physick', who died in 1759 and was buried under a pyramid beyond the tower.

Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

Built on a motte which is about 48 feet high, the tower itself is just over 33 feet high.