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Caption For Aberdeen, King's College C1900

The Crown Tower and the chapel, which can just be seen beyond it, date from 1500. This chapel contains the best-preserved ecclesiastical woodwork in Scotland.

Caption For Sully, The Hospital C1950

With its highly stylised stair towers and full-length windows, the hospital would eventually be recognised as one of the most outstanding 20th-century buildings in Wales.

Caption For Peel, The Town From The Castle 1893

The tower in the centre of the picture overlooks the causeway linking the islet with the town, and was probably built by Sir William le Scrope in the 1390s.

Caption For Abercairny, House 1899

Though it features a tower, the internal arrangement was not planned around a grand staircase or central hall, but around corridors.

Caption For Arran, The Castle And Loch Ranza C1890

The square tower projects to cover the entrance, and is equipped with long arrow slits of an early design. The original entrance was of the heavily ribbed barrel-vaulted type.

Caption For Chesham Bois, The Church 1906

In 1884 the tower was added and in 1911, after this view was taken, the nave was extended two further bays to the left.

Caption For Watton, Town Sign And Clock Tower C1955

The clock tower dates from 1679. The coat of arms of Watton is a hare and a barrel: they can be seen above the clock and again on the weather vane.

Caption For North Harrow, Pinner Road C1965

At the divide, under the clock tower, the left-hand fork heads for Pinner village, while the right-hand one will cut through the mediaeval deer park at Pinner Park to Hatch End.

Caption For Preston, Market Place C1955

The square tower to its left is the neighbouring Anglican church of St Mark’s.

Caption For London, Parliament And Whitehall 1880

On the extreme right an area has been cordoned off with barriers, and beyond are the towers of hoists and cranes.

Caption For Northampton, Market Square 1922

Waterloo House has also gone, to be replaced by an office building, though the church tower is still clearly visible.

Caption For Stamford, View From The Water Meadows 1922

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one and relatively little changed, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller when there were fourteen parish church towers

Caption For Cockermouth, Main Street 1906

The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

Caption For Kettering, Parish Church Interior 1922

The amazing tall tower was probably built before the nave, as buttresses appear inside the building.

Caption For St Buryan, Cross 1908

St Buryan is the largest settlement in this southern part of the Land's End peninsula, and its church tower is a landmark from many miles away.

Caption For Stafford, Childrens Park And Old Mill C1955

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Caption For Ormskirk, Church Street 1894

It is unusual in that it has a separate bell tower. The explanation is that during the Dissolution the church received a peal of bells, some or all coming from the disbanded Burscough Priory.

Caption For Boscastle, The Harbour 1894

The one- time watch tower on the hillside overlooks the surrounding waters.

Caption For Dunstable, High Street 1898

We are looking north along the A5, with the Town Hall tower on the grey horizon.

Caption For Leicester, Eastgates 1949

The Gothic Clock Tower, designed by local architect Joseph Goddard in 1868, is decorated with pinnacles and canopies, along with four Leicester worthies including Alderman Gabriel Newton and Simon de Montfort

Caption For Stoke, Church Interior 1890

The Church of St Andrew and St Mary has parts of the tower and porches that are 15th century; the rest dates from 1751, when it was enlarged to cater for the growing population working

Caption For Menheniot, Church & Lychgate 1912

The tower may be 13th century, with the needle spire added by the 15th century. The clock was given in 1907 by General Jago Trelawny after a serious illness.

Caption For Great Tew, The Village C1960

Old Bridge Road c1955 The hilltop village of Bloxham has a striking parish church with an intricately designed late 14th-century tower and spire, possibly completed by the same masons who worked

Caption For Herstmonceux, Castle, West Front 1890

It was rebuilt in a military style, and in the towers are cross-crosslets from which cross-bow bolts could be discharged.