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About a hundred years later the low crossing tower was heightened to house a belfry, and the spire was added.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

From The Grove the camera looks south to a view dominated by William Burges's Speech Room with its polychrome brickwork; the tower, by the local architect Charles Nicholson, was not added until 1919.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

This busy conduit linking St John's and High Street affords a perfect view of the tower.

He escaped, and used the tenor bell rope to make his escape from the church tower in which the stocks were secured. He went off to sea, and never returned.

The pele towers of such buildings protected owners, their livestock and goods against raiding Scots and from the lawlessness to which they were more vulnerable due to the remoteness of the

One further difference is the heightened roof line of the small building next to the flat-roofed, three-storied building in front of the church tower.

The camera is on top of the Victoria Tower above the House of Lords. Immediately below is the abbey's chapter house, where parliament once met.

Despite its looks, the castle actually only dates from 1801, when the main house was built; the turrets and towers were then added even later in 1817.

The pinnacled tower, faced in limestone, is of the 15th century, while the body of the church was built in ironstone a century earlier.

Beneath its dark-coloured tower with a crocketed spirelet, it contains one notable oddity: a squire's pew situated at first-floor level over the south chapel, furnished with a carpet, table and Chippendale

A splendid panoramic view, taken early in the year, of the Stour Valley looking across to the Julliberrie Downs, with the 14th-century tower of Chartham church rising above the trees.

Nave, aisles, transepts, crossing tower, chancel and chapel came into the renewal programme. Only the early Georgian nave and clerestory was left.

It is also possible to make out the towers of the suspension bridge situated a little further along the river. On the far bank are some of the warehouses along Bridge Wharf.

The original spire collapsed in the 17th century, but the top of it has been reset on the stair-turret on the north face of the tower.

Beyond the medieval bridge over the River Ise lies the Church of St Mary Magdalen, distinguished by its tower and octagonal spire.

Down the street stands Welton's church, dedicated to St Martin and distinguished by its square 14th-century tower. Inside is an ancient tub-shaped font, said to be Saxon.

The slope of the rock on the south side was such that it would have been impossible to mount an assault from that direction using battering rams or siege towers.

In this view we can see the squat tower and castellated wing designed by George Devey for Lord Dunraven and built in 1886-88.

The towers at the angle of the castle contained bedchambers for use by the King and Queen. On the ground floor were apartments for the King's officials.

All on the left has gone; to the left, out of picture, is the parish church, whose tower has a giant clock face painted in its east elevation.

The date, 1702, can be seen in different coloured bricks on the tower.

St Mary's church, here without a tower, became a church centre in the late 1980s. The post office and adjoining house remain, but there have been many changes since 1960.