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On the horizon, in the right distance, we can see the tower which stands at the summit of the Heights of Abraham, which today can be reached by cable car.

The Church of St Just has a 15th-century tower which was built to hold a light for shipping. This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

Consecrated in August 1830, St Peterís church is built in brick and stone; it consists of chancel, nave, north and south porches, and an eastern tower with a spire containing a clock and six bells

The 120ft tower was completed in 1459; stone for the building was landed at a quay specially built at the bottom of the hill.

St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here and there, particularly in the west tower

The design was Victorian Gothic with an imposing tower dominating the structure. The building work began in 1882, and by 1885 the town hall was almost complete.

The 13th-century fortress at Inverlochy is a quadrangular enceinte with a round tower at each of the angles; the largest of these is known as Comyn's Tower, and forms the donjon.

At the other end was the rectangular tower, the remains of which are the subject of photograph No 32739. These two structures were linked together by high curtain walls.

At the bottom of the road is the clock tower overlooking the Market Place.

Nestling in a combe between two rocky hills, the tower of the parish church of St Michael is clearly visible in this view of the town, taken from the Cobb, on which the Duke of Monmouth landed on 11

It was built by Thomas Brassey, a successful railway contractor in a sort of French Second Empire style with French Renaissance overtones, complete with a tall tower.

Dating back to the 13th century, the castle is one of the most impressive ruined fortresses in Scotland; the Douglas Tower took 36 years to build, and is thought to be the work of French masons because

The replica ancient Irish round tower is a memorial to a local M P who died in the prime of life. 92ft high, it carries navigation lights.

The nave with its six arches and the western tower were built in the early years of the 16th century. It was restored by Gilbert Scott between 1866 and 1875.

The church with the tower is St John's. Stamford is classed as the best stone-built town in England.

The buildings have not changed in fifty years - except that no one can remember the clock tower (built in 1899) not having a top to it!

Nowadays the diving tower has gone, fishermen line the banks, and there are notices along the edge of the lake warning of the dangers of deep water!

The tower is earlier, rebuilt in 1710. Hidden by the trees to its left is Culham Manor, a fascinating house; its core is a 15th-century grange of Abingdon Abbey.

Olantigh Towers 1901.

The yellow stone and pepper-pot turrets of this 19th-century creation make an odd contrast with the solid Norman tower over the central transept, but this photograph gives a clear impression of the

Seen here from beyond the River Parrett, it once had a castle; now it is crowned by the altered medieval tower of St Michael's church, another example of this dedication on a hill site.

this handsome building, for centuries the official residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury.The entrance is through a Gothic gateway, the ground floor of which was once a prison.The Lollard’s Tower

Its most recognisable feature was its distinctive 125ft-high water tower holding 200,000 gallons (right); nicknamed 'the onion', it is still regarded as a local landmark.

The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.