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Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

It had got into a deplorable condition, and suffered a further mishap when the tower's parapets had to be removed some forty years ago.

The tower in the distance is the Liverpool Municipal Building, constructed by the Corporation when the Town Hall proved too small.

The parish church of St Peter, with its solid flintstone tower dominating the high street shops and mid-morning traffic in this picture, was originally built by the Normans alongside the spacious

The nave became the north aisle during the rebuiding, while the granite-built south aisle (seen here) became the nave and chancel, so it is offset from the tower.

The pinnacled 15th-century tower of St Edward's peeps up over the roof tops.

The west tower, which was begun in 1434, has diagonal buttresses, decorated with buttress shafts and relief pinnacles, panelled battlements and a spire for a stair turret.

The south-east tower with its pyramid roof, the chancel and the Perpendicular-style east window were added in 1853. The building materials are a mix of local stone and flint.

The thatched cruck cottage, with its museum-piece petrol pump and the amazing interlocking of roofs, lead the eye inexorably to the needle-like spire, which crowns the pink granite tower of the church.

Built of local brick with wide stone viewing balconies, it is modelled on the bell-tower of St Marks Square in Venice, and it took fourteen years to build.

Church Street leads to the large parish church of St Mary Magdalene; its 15th-century tower is topped by a twisted spire, which was added in 1846.

The earliest remains in stone are a hall and a small tower, both of which date from the 12th century.

19th-century visitors wishing to get a good view of the town and castle were advised to climb the tower, known as Corrin's folly, on Corrin's Hill (485 ft).

The church of St Mary and St Gabriel has a shingled broach-spire on a central tower. The Caryl Chapel was desecrated by the Royalists in 1643 and later by the Parliamentarians, and left in ruins.

On the right is the tower of the cathedral, which was rebuilt between 1864 and 1867; the remainder of the cathedral was heavily restored during the 1880s.

This is the High Wall of the harbour, with Higher Walk on top and Lower Walk below, with the Gin Shop alcove and steps (left).

Approach from the south, over a brook and through trees, to the 15th-century tower and slender recessed crocketed spire of St Mary's, standing over 200 feet high.

It was the birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, the ill-fated nine- days' queen, who was executed aged 17 in the Tower of London in 1554, the innocent victim of family ambitions.

Its solid clasping buttressed and battlemented tower rises in four stages. The building was restored in 1877 by the architect J Reynolds Rowe.

Built primarily of local stone (not the hardest of materials), a belt-and-braces parish council authorised the use of facing bricks to repair the top of the tower.

1549 as 'the round castle of Buitte callit Rosay of the auld', the first stone castle at Rothesay was a circular shell keep 142ft in diameter with walls 30ft high and 9ft thick; four projecting drum towers

The clock tower of the Town Hall is prominent. The Town Hall opened in 1900; the architect was W T Unwin. The row of shops facing the river include that of A Crowson, 'fancy goods dealer'.

He imposed his personality on all but the 1507 west tower and the chancel arch: the windows are entirely his own, for example.

The south wall of the tower has an impressive clock, with the figure of Father Time, supposedly paid for out of the profits from the parish farm, which was ostensibly operated for the benefit of the