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

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.

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

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

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.

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

St Bartholomew's Church has a beautiful Somerset tower.

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.

A great Perpendicular Gothic church, its west front is famous for the ladders with angels ascending and descending each side of the towering west window.

Soham's 15th century church tower is an imposing landmark throughout the surrounding fens, so it is not surprising that it also makes a good viewpoint.

To the right is Robin Hood's Tower; its ground floor contains the 11th-century St Nicholas'

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.

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.

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.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.

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

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The tower contains a peal of ten bells and a clock, and is surmounted by four open stone lanterns richly ornamented with pinnacles and vanes.