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The light Chilmark limestone, quarried only ten miles away, contrasts with the dark Purbeck marble of the slender shafts supporting the arches.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

The two-storey north porch has a two- centred arch. The east window dates from 1846- 48.

Marble Arch stood here in the Mall until 1850, when it was removed to its present position at the top of Park Lane.The Mall, an expansive and formal approach to the Palace, is fringed with limes

The yellow brick west tower has a re-used Norman zig-zag arch to the doorway.

The chancel and nave walls are more than 700 years old, and the nave arches were fashioned out of chalk from nearby Odiham.

The high arched ceiling is supported on slim pillars of pale stone, creating a light and welcoming interior. The pulpit is of alabaster and the screen of ironwork.

The opening in 1912 of the County Hall in Cathays Park provided a much-needed centrally contained administrative centre for Glamorgan.

It began life as the Merchants' Exchange, with an open-arched arcade on the ground floor. This was blocked in 1718 when the building was converted for use as a Customs House.

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

Its iron girders were replaced in 1939 with stone arches.

Controversially, he removed the plasterwork - thus exposing the timber-framing - and disposed of the 500-year- old arches between the posts on the ground floor.

It is best known for the beauty of the architecture of its two churches: the ancient building has been sympathetically restored, and the newer place of worship has four impressive stone arches

Dart Bridge is the first on the river to be built from anything other than granite - its four arches are constructed from local limestone.

At Water End, the River Gade runs under the fine three-arched bridge and through water meadows shaded by beech, willow and oak trees.

The arch is that to the 1911 pipe bridge that carries Lincoln's water from Nottinghamshire. The present footbridge is a Victorian one placed here in 1987.

This is how local historian W A Abram described the Town Hall: 'The west front, 120 feet wide, with an elevation of 63 feet, presents the main entrance in the centre, by three massive arched doorways

Here we glimpse the High Street through the arches of the Market Hall, which was built in 1627 at the expense of Sir Baptist Hicks.

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

The 19th-century squire, Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, had every window in the village altered to have rounded lights under an exterior arch in the belief that this would bring good luck.

The storks in the spandrels of the doorway arch are often found on Gibson buildings. In the late 19th century the bank of the Gibsons amalgamated with others to form Barclays.

It is thought that Macbeth may have lived at Inverness Castle, or used it as a base for operations against the Orcadians.The suspension bridge superseded a stone bridge of seven arches, which was destroyed

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

To the left are the arched and mullioned windows of the 1661 Almshouses; partly hidden is Ashlar House, which is mid 18th- century and set at the corner of Pound Lane, which leads to the moated Manor