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Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

The 200ft tower was modelled on the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The nearby St George's Hall (1853) was an earlier design by the same architects.

An exquisite snow scene looking towards the mainly 13th-century St Michael's Church, which was much altered in the 19th century when the Norman tower was re-positioned half-way along the south aisle.

Part of the tower dates from his rebuilding from 1858.

Now a United Reformed Church in weekly use, this flint church has lost its neighbouring large tree and the central bell tower and short spire.

Martello Towers were built in the time of Napoleon to guard the coast.

The entrance tower on the east front if Victorian.

The squat tower of Hubberholme's parish church of St Michael and All Angels occupies a lovely setting in the valley of Wharfedale, where it turns into Langstrothdale in its upper reaches.

The sloping Church Street leads up to the tower of the parish church, past The White Swan public house on the right.

In the background (centre left) is the tower of the large parish church of St Andrew.

The clock tower is sixty metres high, and is visible from afar. The architect was E A Rickards, a devotee of the baroque style.

The new stained glass window in the tower of St Andrew's, installed after the war, was designed by John Piper (who also designed the windows in the east end); it commemorates Nancy Astor and her husband

In the background is the pinnacled tower of All Saints' parish church, which was largely rebuilt in 1867.

The central tower was rebuilt in 1904 and crowned with a spire.

The church tower rises above these small weatherboarded and tiled cottages in a side lane off the main High Street.

The 15th-century tower of Charminster's church dominates the valley of the River Cerne, and was built under the direction of Sir Thomas Trenchard. Parts of the building date back to the 12th century.

The fine embattled western tower of Holy Trinity houses a clock and one bell.

The tower can be seen from the river, peeping through the trees.

An imitation Norman doorway in the porch entrance of the south-west tower may have been based on an original piece.

It was from the top of the Goblin Tower that the keys to the castle and town were hurled at the feet of the Parliamentarian commander Major General Mytton upon the surrender of the Royalist garrison.

This view from the church tower looks towards the wooded slopes of High Guards and up the valley of the Yewdale Beck.The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the

This view shows how Jumbo the water tower dominates views in the town.

The tower, which dates from c1495, is topped off with what is considered to be the finest example of a crown steeple in the whole of Scotland.

The church was founded in 1107 and was the cause of bitter rivalry between town and prior, culminating in each faction building its own 15th-century bell towers.