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It was rebuilt in 1781, and the tower and spire were rebuilt a hundred years later. Note the huge size of the windows.

Abbot Lichfield's Bell Tower, built in 1539, dominates the water meadows of the River Avon. Notice the Romany caravans at rest on the far bank.

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

This view of Tideswell is from the pinnacled Perpendicular tower of the parish church.

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.

stone church on this site, just beside the old Watling Street, was built soon after 1066, but the present building is mainly 13th-century, with a rather handsome 15th-century stepped-buttressed beacon tower

Appleton-le-Street's hill-top parish church of All Saints is famous for its tower, the lower part of which shows signs of Saxon work.

It was built in 1826 in the rare Greek-revival style, with a circular bell tower above the pedimented Doric portico.

The building has been restored on number of occasions, and when the tower was renovated in the early part of the last century, some of the stone heads were re-carved to represent the workmen.

The abbey was founded in 1175; all that now remains is the west tower.

The abbey was founded in 1175; all that now remains is the west tower.

Hunstanton's chief feature is its distinctive white and red banded cliffs, which rise from nothing at this point to a towering 30 metres just 300 metres further north.

The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave.

In this picture, the impressive County Hotel and Barclays Bank (built originally as a wine and spirit warehouse) can be seen on the corner, with the clock tower and the old Infirmary beyond.

In the background the church tower rises among the leafy summer trees.

It was replaced by the 112-foot present tower in 1873.

The earliest castle was an earthwork and timber fortification at Mounty Brough, built soon after the Normans had taken the Gower.

Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall. This broad, pleasing square was later converted into a car park.

Chalton Down Mill was a brick tower windmill located on a remote hill top overlooking the main London to Portsmouth road. It was powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail.

The clock tower on the far side of the bridge belonged to an important tin smelting works which operated throughout most of the 18th and 19th centuries before closing in 1891.

The squat tower is thought to have been rebuilt in 1384. Inside, there is a striking Norman font and a lectern of 1509.

The other solid building in the village was the old vicarage, a former much-altered pele- tower with a barrel-vaulted ground floor.

White Nancy is a tower situated on the ridge to the south of the town, and is said to have been built by a member of the Gaskell family to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo, and to be named after one

Little has changed since this picture was taken, save that the clock tower of 1887 is now painted blue and white.