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The abbey was embellished by its lofty twin towers in the early 1700s.

This fine clock tower was built to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.

The original church was left in ruins after the Civil War, and the smaller replacement was built within the ruins, its tower a useful navigational aid for mariners offshore.

Dublin Castle remained the centre of British power in Ireland from King John's time onwards. The Norman castle burnt down in 1684 and little survives.

At a later date, stone from the cloisters and the top of the tower (seen behind) was taken to build a farmhouse.

It is in the Early English style, with a chancel and nave, and a small west tower with a pointed spire containing one bell.

This view is dominated by Tower House, the premises of John Evans & Co, outfitters.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

The company began in 1847, and the brewery tower dates back to 1869.

The brick tower of St Mary Magdalene's church dates from the 15th century.

Its tower houses an impressive peal of 12 bells, and in the nave are an ornamented Tudor tomb and a 17th-century font.

The Norman nave survives, but the chancel and tower were added in the 13th century.

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

Just beyond the Market House stands the Town Hall, its prominent clock tower topped by an intricate weather vane.

The view across the village from the tower of the parish church of St Nicholas.

The tower lost its pinnacles through bomb damage in 1943, which also destroyed Market Arcade in the distance.

The Co-op building on the right of 1900 survives, bereft of its tower.

The chapel was built in 1763; it had no tower, and was considerably shorter.

St Bartholomew's Church has a beautiful Somerset tower.

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

The 15th-century tower was spared, and now serves a new religion: it supports a mobile phone mast.

The tower has buttresses banded with light courses of limestone and darker courses of ironstone; inside there is an interesting spiral stair to the north chapel.

A great Perpendicular Gothic church, its west front is famous for the ladders with angels ascending and descending each side of the towering west window.

Soham's 15th century church tower is an imposing landmark throughout the surrounding fens, so it is not surprising that it also makes a good viewpoint.