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All Saints' Parish Church was rebuilt in 1837 by William Fisher from Oxford, who kept the plain 13th-century west tower and reused several windows, doorways and arches.

Lying about ten miles east of Hawes, Aysgarth is famous for a series of waterfalls on the River Ure, the upper of which can still be viewed from a 16th-century single-arch bridge.

The entrance to St Chad's is the arched opening on the right.

A number of late medieval timber-framed thatched cottages remain, such as the one shown here; Magpie Cottage was, and is, a much photographed symbol of the village.

Flowerbeds, paths, rockeries, a waterfall, and a random stone arched bridge all enhanced the gardens further. The bowling green was an instant success.

This neat church is basically Norman, and was so badly neglected during early Victorian times and was in such a poor state of repair that it was heavily restored in 1865.

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from this splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

Behind the tree is the arched entrance to the stable yard of the former Swan Inn, which still has a painted sign 'Ring for Ostler'.

The arches on the front had statues in them, which were destroyed after 1539.

This five-arched granite structure was constructed in 1827 from the designs of John Rennie. Its excessive cost was once the talk of the city.

Built around 1840 to carry the London and North Western railway line north through Lancashire, this splendid six-arch bridge strides across the River Wyre just below Scorton Lakes.

A priest and historian, amongst his many works was a much-acclaimed eight-volume 'History of England'.

It appears that it had an apse, which has now gone, and so has the chancel arch. The font and fittings have been replaced.

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

Reading Bridge is an elegant reinforced concrete one, with a single main span and Brunel-like arches on each bank. Opened in 1923, it is an examplar of what can be done in the material.

The first floor windows are arched and decorated with different coloured bricks, a style known somewhat grandiosely as 'Constructional Polychromy'.

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

Mock Gothic turrets were added, a profusion of sharply arched windows and much other sham detailing. To many the stupendous structure had the look of an ornate medieval castle.

In the form of a cross, it is built in the Corinthian style, and surmounted by the giant dome which rises on arches over the centre.

With sixteen stone arches, much of the original fabric survives after a widening in 1796.

The bridge is remarkable too, and long, with seventeen arches, three of them medieval, three of 1809 and the rest of 1751.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

In the form of a cross, it is built in the Corinthian style, and surmounted by the giant dome which rises on arches over the centre.

Much of the Abbey would have been designed with arches, openings and decorations similar to those that survive on the Norman Tower.