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The raised footway at the top of the towers, 140 feet above the level of the river, was closed in 1909 after a spate of suicides.

It is said that Quilter added a new tower for each million he made - by 1905 there were nine towers.

Situated at the north east of Loch Awe, Kilchurn is a 15th-century tower built by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy.

The 12th-century church tower is built of locally-mined clunch. It was used as a watch tower, and stands above the spring and the castle remains where Geoffrey de Manderville lost his life.

The tower in the foreground is all that remains of the fourth church, which was built in 1530.

This view shows the four-stage west tower. Because of the height of the clerestory, the east-facing clock face had to be sited higher up the tower than those on the other sides.

Symon built the chancel, tower and transepts, and his successor Bishop Richard added the nave. The central tower is 68 ft high and has a bell turret rising above it.

The western tower was started later in 1525 with a stone base and, as at nearby Dedham, a vaulted ground floor with processional arches in the north and south sides.

The tower was used as a pele tower by villagers, who hid there from marauding Scots.

The tower keep had its own moat. Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

The Cathedral c1875 Soaring above the surrounding rooftops, the spires of the Cathedral dominate the city in this view taken from the tower of the West Gate.

It acquired the name of Edgar Tower in the 18th century because an ancient statue of 10th-century King Edgar stood above the gate.

The tower was originally in the centre, but it was moved to the west end in 1845 by T H Wyatt. Pevsner describes the bell tower as having 'a very pretty composition of the bell-openings'.

The 1521 tower was retained and raised, but the additional stonework proved too much for its foundations, and the tower was rebuilt in 1887.

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

The church, dedicated to St Ebba, was built around 1740 and enlarged in 1792 when the tower and spire were also added.

The ornate clock tower and gateway were added in 1874 to designs by the famous pier designer Eugenius Birch. Both the entrance and the tower were demolished in 1928.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a sturdy 14th-century building with a 13th-century western tower.

Great Mill is a yellow brick tower windmill standing on a ridge, with panoramic views of the flat fenland.

Formerly one of the few eight-sailed windmills in the country, the tower is all that remains of the complex of granaries, bakery and mill house.

The choir and tower date from the 13th century, and the spire was added about two centuries later. The tower is 220 ft high.

The magnificent three-storey porch, England's largest and constructed 100 years after the tower, faces the Market Square.

The ruins include a large shell keep within a rectangular ward, a twin-towered gatehouse, a large D-shaped tower, and traces of a hall.