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The twin-towered gatehouse, or Le Gemeltour Supra Portram as it was called in a survey of the castle undertaken in 1343, is flanked on the right by the Prison Tower (Le Prisontour), and on the left by

The tower dominating this picture is the bell-tower, built in 1515-1525; an equally massive church tower is hidden behind the tree.

The present tower, built in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, stands on the site of the covered market, which also had a clock tower.

Before the factory came, there was nothing here but farmland, moorland and Fenton Cawthorne's tower.

This classic view of the castle contrasts the delicacy of the chapel, with its triple Gothic windows and pinnacled octagonal towers, with the somewhat more robust Windsor-like tower to its left.

This view looks across the city, past Cow Tower. The great cathedral spire dominates the view, with the square block of the castle on the left and St Peter Mancroft's tower in between.

We are looking west towards the Eagle Tower, with the Queen's and Chamberlain Towers on the left.

The buildings beneath the tower were completed at the turn of the 20th century. Just like Blackpool today, our tower building contained a theatre (later a cinema), a ballroom and gardens.

Next to the Arlington Hotel is the Methodist chapel, with the tower of the Catholic church beyond.

A view of the Tower from Tower Bridge as a police boat races downstream. Traitor's Gate can be seen in the river wall to the left.

The building glimpsed to the left of centre with the white pediment and the tower is the old fire station built in 1922; the tower is its practice fire- fighting tower surmounted by a siren

The pinnacled central tower of the cathedral dominates the Gloucester skyline. Built of Painswick stone, the 225 ft high tower was completed in 1450.

Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.

Marten's Tower and its flanking turrets was erected between 1285 and 1293 by Roger Bigod III.

The Round Tower, or donjon, is also known as Baliol Tower.

Tower Bridge was built for horse-drawn vehicles, but by 1920 it had to bear increasing numbers of motor cars. This view was probably taken from a moored ship near Billingsgate Market.

The origin of St John's tower is not entirely clear.

The Town Hall did not need or get a clock, because the Market Hall had the town's clock on a free-standing tower in front of it.

This tower was built in 1322 as an outwork to the tower on the north-west corner of the wall.

From the avenue lined with lime trees the eye is drawn eastwards to the 162-foot high tower of St John the Baptist's, the tallest tower in Gloucestershire, containing a ring of twelve bells with the

Despite their looks, the walls and towers round York Castle and Clifford's Tower were not medieval.

To the left, beyond the old bandstand, is a good view of the Wish Tower, the Napoleonic period martello tower.

The New Brighton Tower was completed in 1898, about eight years after the Blackpool Tower.

There are not many churches dedicated to this saint, and this church is also unique because of its two towers. There has been a church on this site for over a thousand years.