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Spence said that his design came to him when he was under the influence of anaesthetic for toothache: he saw zigzagging walls and an altar ablaze with light.

Meads Road, of course, had old trees already: a villa is seen on the right, and on the left carriages shelter from the sun alongside the flint wall fronting Saffrons Park, now a sports ground.

The nave of All Saints' Church is Norman, with later windows of c1300. Only the chancel is now used for worship; the rest of the building is in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund.

Before this, as we see here, the walls and nave pillars and arches were plastered and whitewashed.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

A great medieval port and a walled town, it declined as the sea retreated; by Victorian times it was mainly a prosperous market town for the surrounding area and the Walland Marshes.

This traffic island at the south end of the High Street, with its random stone walling, double yellow lines, and Festival of Britain-style sign, somehow epitomises a rather unlovely village.

The upper storey was added in 1890, and the old walls encased with red brick and pediments in 1915.

It was then used by local families, who lived in tenements built within the walls; the last of these left in 1898.

This attractive group, which makes the most of the possibilities of tile-hanging walls, is on the Petworth Road just south-west of the Green.

Masonry rises on the skyline from the Butavant Tower (left) and the walls of the west bailey to the 80ft-high keep and the south-west gatehouse.

It has an inner core divided into three stories, and around this core is an outer enclosing wall with a staircase in between.

As well as the Smiths Arms again visible in the centre distance, we can also see two more public houses here - the Hope and Anchor, the long white building on the right, and the Bull and Dog immediately

Set at the mouth of the River Conway, or Conwy, this mediaeval walled town with its famous castle, one of Edward I's 'iron ring' around Wales, is still remarkably self-contained.

The Welsh had to live outside the town walls. Here we see the modern town square filled with coaches for holidaymakers and locals alike.

The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard's rubblestone retaining walls.

The scene is recognisable today, though the National Benzole petrol station on the left has gone, and so has the long stone wall on the right.

Southgate is a remnant of the old town walls.

Note the new prison (built 1820) to the left of the main castle buildings with its chimneys and observation tower, all of which have been removed.

The wall to the United Reformed Churchyard is on the right, and beyond is a terrace of three shops with flats over which was built about 1910. The rural calm of this view has long gone.

Its walls were the same thickness all the way up, which enhanced its defensive capabilities.

At the far left is the high churchyard wall to Holy Trinity church, yet another Surrey medieval church largely replaced in Victorian times.

This view looks north along Godalming Road with the 18th-century White Horse pub on the right, its Bargate stone walls painted white.

Stone sett paths and some flagstone walls dividing the back yards still remain today behind the stone terraces to both left and right.