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The tall west tower, which has battlements and pinnacles, is early Perpendicular.

The famous Dr Roberts' clock tower on the right of the picture was built in 1893 as a memorial to his wife. It still functions today.

The hotel porter waits optimistically outside with his hand-cart.The famous Dr Roberts' clock tower on the right of the picture was built in 1893 as a memorial to his wife.

The huge wheel window over the double porch is flanked by twin towers. On the extreme right is part of Eastmans Ltd the butcher's, which remained there until 1956.

The church tower is octagonal and capped with a wooden leaded spire. The pump has been replaced with a car park.

The Victorian town hall and its dominating clock tower overlook some fine Tudor and Jacobean town houses.

The Clock Tower which we saw in picture 32923 (opposite) can just be seen in the background.

Its roof probably dates from the late 18th century, but the steeper pitch of an earlier medieval roof can be seen in the tower wall behind it.

The hotel porter waits optimistically outside with his hand-cart.The famous Dr Roberts' clock tower on the right of the picture was built in 1893 as a memorial to his wife.

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.

The tower of the Norman church of St Cadfan stands in the centre. The church was restored and partly rebuilt in 1882.

Little now remains of the massive structure that once stood on this site, although two of the towers may still be seen.

We start close to Stourhead, at King Alfred's Tower.

As recently as 1975 a free-standing bell tower was completed; incidentally, this was the first to be built for an English cathedral since the 15th century.

This brief tour of Stamford has now climbed up to St Mary's Street to look east past the north nave aisle of St Mary's Church to the Stamford Hotel, somewhat over-large for the narrow street and towering

It is in the Jacobean style, with a tower imitating the medieval period.

St Michael's church stands on Church Road close to Lower Green. Its predecessor was an important medieval church, but it was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1950, sad to say.

Further along, crowned by a soaring clock tower, stands the imposing Renaissance-style Municipal Building.

In the 1860s, Charles Scarisbrick commissioned Pugin to rebuild the ancient hall, with the soaring 100-foot tower being added after his death by his sister, Anne.

Apart from the loss of the gable cross and the insertion of clock dials into the tower, the view is unchanged today.

The 15th-century tower has flushwork patterns on the battlements and buttresses.

The White Hart has changed little over the years, but the imposing clock tower, and the shops to its right, have now been replaced by a large modern store.

The 19th-century Abbey Mill contrasts with the 15th-century church tower, which possibly replaced a smaller Norman one.

A stone carving on the tower might have inspired Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat, as his father, the Reverend Dodgson, often visited St Wilfrid's.