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St Bartholomew's Church is Victorian; its tower and spire are 120 feet high.

A peaceful view of Howth harbour, looking along the sea wall towards the tower and the east pier. Rowing boats are moored in the harbour.

The 320ft-high Big Ben clock tower attached to the new Palace of Westminster was just 38 years old at this time.

The Royal Marine Hotel on the left has now succumbed to a towering ten storey block of flats, Metropole Court, one of three architectural disasters along the sea front.

The large square tower was restored after it was struck by lightning in 1896. The little stream, in the immediate foreground, gives the village its name.

The tower, 162 feet high, and the rich roofscape of crocketted pinnacles and pierced battlements, dominate the town.

The buildings on the right belong to the school with the Victoria Tower, the main entrance, dominating the scene. Opposite is the splendid porch with Ionic columns complete with mud scapers.

A viaduct carries the road across Careg Ddu and passes the grand water tower, whose purely functional purpose was for routine maintenance.

In the background is the turreted tower of St Mary's parish church.

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

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

In the distance is the church of St Mary Major with its massive 13th-century tower, square at the base and octagonal at the top.

The tower of the Holy Trinity Church peers over the fine silk and jeweller's stores.

This prospect of the castle from the Gloucestershire side of the bridge clearly illustrates how commanding the Great Tower appears, and why the young J M W Turner was so inspired to paint

This great castle mound is perhaps best seen from the top of church tower: it is a fine example of a motte and bailey.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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