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Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall. This broad, pleasing square was later converted into a car park.

The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

The tower can be seen from miles around.

After the First World War, the former Market Place was congregated here around the 1835 brick clock tower, built on the site of a mediaeval chapel.

The lone tower of St Leonard's is all that remains of what was once a 14th-century church that was demolished in 1836.

The children are standing in front of Bexhill's clock tower, which was erected on the Parade in 1902 to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward VII.

The originally 14th-century pinnacled tower of St Mark's parish church watches over Ilkeston's wide Market Place, with the town's war memorial in the foreground.

Opposite is the Royal Hotel, with its red brick facade, steep roofs and decorative towers, promising Victorian travellers a sophisticated welcome.

He had it rebuilt with this pagoda-like tower in 1872.

Uplyme's church tower is 47 feet high and a prominent landmark, once used a triangulation station by mapmakers.

Its tower has a cupola and plaque dating from the restoration after a storm in 1703. Inside is a chapel to St Barbara with a 15th-century picture of her in stained glass.

This view shows its sloping, circular, cobbled Market Place, with the tower of Holy Trinity Church, now a museum for the Green Howards Regiment from nearby Catterick Garrison, on the right.

St Pancras Church, with its lofty pinnacled tower, was built in granite in the 14th century. It was to come to Widecombe Fair that Uncle Tom Cobley borrowed Tom Pearce's grey mare.

The 14th century octagonal central tower is a piece of architectural genius - four hundred tons of masonry appear from the inside to be suspended without any apparent means of support.

The mill stands on Wray Common, a brick tower mill with four patent sails winded by a fantail; it was built in 1824 and ceased work in about 1895.

This typical Lincolnshire brick tower mill is powered by five patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail. It was built in 1813, and worked by wind until 1964.

It opened in 1867, and included a handsome saloon, refreshment rooms, shelters, a pier orchestra and a tower from where one could watch the ships go by.

In all these photographs the tower of St Lawrence's church dominates the town.

Dunstaffnage belongs to the period when a determined effort was being made to extend royal power.

Between 1969 and 1970 the tower of this church was renovated, involving the removal of the pinnacles. Two new bells were hung and dedicated to former bell-ringers.

The church stands on rising ground, and has a distinctive off-centre tower. The sails of the windmill, which we can see in the background, were removed some years ago.

There is a strong similarity in the design of the towers of All Saints', St John's and St Martin's churches.