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The south wall of the tower has an impressive clock, with the figure of Father Time, supposedly paid for out of the profits from the parish farm, which was ostensibly operated for the benefit of the

The 252 ft spire of St Mary Magdalen towers over the Market Place.

The finest feature is its tower with angle volutes and vases crowned by a slim spire.

St Andrew's Church was demolished in 1947 but the medieval tower, with its elegant spire of 1751, was allowed to remain.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

The 14th-century church of St Peter has an impressive tower. Ardingly College, situated nearby, is a notable Public School.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses a peal of eight bells. The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.

The local coastline is noted for Martello coastal defence towers, dating from the Napoleonic Wars.

A rare surviving example of an English belfry, the Clock Tower, built in 1411, stands at the centre of the city with the narrow mediaeval street of French Row on its left and the wider Market Place on

The south wall of the tower has an impressive clock, with the figure of Father Time, supposedly paid for out of the profits from the parish farm, which was ostensibly operated for the benefit of the

A large village, equidistant from Moreton in Marsh and Chipping Campden but not distant enough to develop into a market town itself, Blockley harnessed the water power of its deeply cleft valley

Ferrybridge is ideally placed for a major power station - coal could be delivered on the adjacent River Aire, and so from 1927 for thirty years Ferrybridge 'A' Power Station, seen here, generated

Canary Wharf is the most famous; its gigantic office tower, 824 feet (251 metres) high, was started in 1987, and now in 2002 has been joined by two others.

Our predecessors, building in an age of great material prosperity, decided that a building adequate to meet the needs of the future could hardly be built around the old tower because it would dwarf it.

Avenham Tower can be seen in the trees to the right, and the paths lead away to Frenchwood.

In the early 14th century, Sir Richard Hoghton and his wife, Sybilla de Lea, presided over an estate which was was already over 40,000 acres.The Tower will always be associated with the visit of

A solid little stone tower on a slant, nothing elaborate, dates from the 13th century and is on the north side of the church, not at the usual west end. The church has Norman origins.

St Mary's Church is a very good and sturdy example of norman ecclesiastical architecture. it is said that from the top of the church tower no less than 17 other churches can be seen.

To the left is the tower of St Mary Magdalene.

You can see Norman evidence here with the blocked arch into the long-demolished south transept from the tower, and also the doorway arch.

Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse of its tower

A fine carving on the tower appears to depict Josef Stalin, but it is actually the likeness of David Warner, one-time sexton.

The view was taken from the tower in the time of Rev Eldon Surtees Bankes, the rector since 1854.

This segment included Stanwell, whose village centre has quite a few good buildings and a church with a strikingly good tower.