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Seen here from the tower of the Town Hall, the rather bulbous layout (which, it has to be said, is less noticeable from eye level) could, with imagination, have been improved so as to relieve the 50

sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex included a church about 400 ft long; a cloister on the north side; the west front was supported by towers

The drum towers were also used for accommodation, while the Constable's apartments were situated in the east gatehouse. The wall partly off-picture to the right is a section of the fortified dam.

Levens Hall is a fine Elizabethan mansion built for the Bagot family around 1580, around a 14th-century pele tower.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower. A

East Cliff towers above Rock-a-Nore Road here, with fishermen's sheds and stores on the left.

The battlemented tower with its small pinnacle once sported a quaint timber belfry, which rose to a height of 130 feet.

The minster is one of the largest cathedrals of England, and the western towers are 196 feet high.

It was completed in 1814 by Francis Johnson, and is situated in the Lower Yard, on the site of an earlier, smaller, chapel. In the background is the Record Tower, which dates from 1258.

St Martin's Church tower can be seen behind the bridge.

The church was rebuilt in 1651 and the tower and spire added in 1828.

In the distance, the tower of St Paul's church peers above the roof of the Globe Hotel. Nearby is the Perse School, established in 1625, and moved here from Free School Lane in 1890.

The surviving west tower is where Jane Shore, mistress of Edward IV, came after his death.

Behind is the former priory church, its cross-set belfry rising above a low square tower.

It was entirely rebuilt in the mid to late 15th century on a massive scale: it is 128 feet long with a tower 83 feet high, which had a spire until 1577.

The tower is 101 feet high, and was built c1454-79.

The strong tower appeared in 1450. Within is a piscina, part of the original 12th-century building, and the font was probably presented by the Bradley family.

Because of its high position, the tower was used as a government lookout and signal station in 1804, when Napoleon was expected to invade.

The original entrance and coat of arms, a mounting stone for horsemen and the winding staircase to the old tower are still intact.

Bullet marks on the lower part of the tower date from the period of the Civil War.

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.

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

There is a warren of lanes and ways, most of which circle the fine old church with its 15th-century tower and Tudor doorway.

The stone tower was added some forty years later. The cobbles on the road in the foreground have gone, and the trees have grown more, but otherwise this view is little changed.