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This is another of the Lincolnshire churches that has Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the tower.

Even with its spikey pinnacles, the tower is unremarkable. The east end has been worked over more than once, firstly rebuilt in 1778, and then again in 1895.

This fine clock tower was built to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

The original church was left in ruins after the Civil War, and the smaller replacement was built within the ruins, its tower a useful navigational aid for mariners offshore.

Dublin Castle remained the centre of British power in Ireland from King John's time onwards. The Norman castle burnt down in 1684 and little survives.

The Norman nave survives, but the chancel and tower were added in the 13th century.

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

The view across the village from the tower of the parish church of St Nicholas.

Its tower houses an impressive peal of 12 bells, and in the nave are an ornamented Tudor tomb and a 17th-century font.

Here, the abbey is almost complete save for the tower.

The chapel was built in 1763; it had no tower, and was considerably shorter.

Just beyond the Market House stands the Town Hall, its prominent clock tower topped by an intricate weather vane.

The tower lost its pinnacles through bomb damage in 1943, which also destroyed Market Arcade in the distance.

The Co-op building on the right of 1900 survives, bereft of its tower.

St Bartholomew's Church has a beautiful Somerset tower.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

William Herbert's tower-keep is seen here on the right of the picture.

The company began in 1847, and the brewery tower dates back to 1869.

The brick tower of St Mary Magdalene's church dates from the 15th century.

The former Crown Inn is at the end of the row (centre), beneath the octagonal church tower with its wooden leaded spire. To the right, the building with a hipped roof is now three shops.

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

The 15th-century tower was spared, and now serves a new religion: it supports a mobile phone mast.

The tower has buttresses banded with light courses of limestone and darker courses of ironstone; inside there is an interesting spiral stair to the north chapel.

The Clock Tower is an uncommon form of memorial to the fallen of World War I: it was first erected in 1920, and has since been moved slightly to avoid obstructing the traffic.