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Caption For Durham, The Cathedral C1955

Most of these belong to the university, and include the former Grammar School, located near the cathedral towers.

Caption For Barrow In Furness, South Walney Lightouse 2004

Just past the South Walney nature reserve on Haws Point is the impressive structure of the Walney lighthouse, erected in 1790 as a plain wooden tower.

Caption For Cheltenham, Cheltenham College Playing Fields 1907

The crowded stand, erected in front of the yellow brick gymnasium with its two towers, indicates that this is probably a match between county teams held during the annual Cheltenham Cricket Festival, rather

Caption For Stourpaine, Manor Road C1955

Behind the lychgate at the end of Manor Road rises the flint and stone tower of Holy Trinity parish church.

Caption For Ambleside, From The Gale 1886

The solidly constructed tower to the right is part of the Market Hall of 1863. To the left of the Market Hall is the back of the former Court House.

Caption For Sutton On Trent, Church Street C1955

In this view all is obscured except the tower, which was rebuilt in 1902.

Caption For Buntingford, Layston Church C1950

Only the tower and chancel, now used as a cemetery chapel, survive.

Caption For Durham, St Mary Le Bow 1918

It was rebuilt in 1683, and the tower was added in 1703. St Mary-le-Bow was the parish church for the northern part of the peninsula.

Caption For Bourne, Edenham Village C1955

The village has mostly limestone buildings; the cedars remain in its churchyard, which is dominated by the pinnacle-topped 15th-century tower.

Caption For Alford, West Street C1950

The tower of St Wilfrid's Church had to be the perch of the photographer for him to take this shot.

Caption For Horsham, East Street 1891

Here the photographer looks west towards East Street between rows of bay-windowed and gabled 1880s Victorian lower-middle- class terraces.

Caption For Staplehurst, The Village 1903

The 15th-century tower of All Saints church rises in the background; its famous carved wooden southern door from the 12th century, showing an assortment of Viking motifs, still attracts visitors.

Caption For Godmersham, The Church 1906

The church, whose Norman tower stands on the north side of the building, has an eastern apse constructed through it, indicating that it was used as a separate chapel.

Caption For Amersham, St Mary's Church C1955

The church tower is 15th-century, refaced in the 1880s. Beyond is the old Weller's Brewery, later the Goya perfume factory and since the 1980s converted to stylish apartments.

Caption For Rothley, Church Of St Mary And St John The Baptist C1965

A tranquil setting for a fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, with its solid buttressed and battle- mented tower rising in four stages.

Caption For Abingdon, The Town Hall C1945

Looking from within the abbey gateway, this view again shows the Town Hall, its up-to-the-minute Baroque grandeur and monumentality combined with the slightly old-fashioned stair tower with its almost

Caption For Doncaster, St Sepulchre Gate C1955

We can see the 15th-century tower of St George's church on the horizon (left). This was rebuilt to the designs of Sir Gilbert Scott in 1858 after a major fire five years earlier.

Caption For Minehead, The Beach 1906

Beyond the bathing machines, the newer town is on the left, the white cottages of Quay Town are on the right, and the old town climbs the hill towards the medieval church with its tall 15th-century tower

Caption For Newchurch In Pendle, C1960

Its 16th-century church has the Eye of God on its church tower to protect the villagers against witchcraft, which was so genuinely feared by the parishioners of St Mary's.

Caption For Staplehurst, The Village 1903

The 15th-century tower of All Saints church rises in the background; its famous carved wooden southern door from the 12th century, showing an assortment of Viking motifs, still attracts visitors.

Caption For Amwell, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

The tower was added to the church in the 15th century, and later this was surmounted by a spire. The village stocks still survive near the church, and so does the pigeon-house to Amwellbury.

Caption For Alford, West Street C1950

The tower of St Wilfrid's Church had to be the perch of the photographer for him to take this shot.

Caption For Spilsby, The Church C1955

The tower of St James' Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour.

Caption For Crawley, Parish Church 1903

Set back behind the High Street, the church looks reassuringly medieval amid the modernity of Crawley, but in fact only the nave wall is: the tower was rebuilt in 1807 and the rest in 1880.