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Though it features a tower, the internal arrangement was not planned around a grand staircase or central hall, but around corridors.

The town features slightly in his novel 'Two on a Tower', which was written at that time.

The church was originally a plain rectangular building with a tower, but by 1852 galleries were added to provide more seating and an organ was installed.

It opened in 1867, and included a handsome saloon, refreshment rooms, shelters, a pier orchestra and a tower from where one could watch the ships go by.

In 1835 a tower, part of the town wall defences, was incorporated into what was then Belmont House; its height was increased by the addition of a turret to match the rest of the building.

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.

Rushden, which merges to the north with Higham Ferrers, does not have a great deal of interest architecturally – except for its superb parish church, with a tower and spire nearly 164 ft high.

Though it features a tower, the internal arrangement was not planned around a grand staircase or central hall, but around corridors.

The original intention was that there should be a tower on top of the Town Hall but the local people felt it looked quite grand enough as it was and so did not bother to add it.

A fine view of the Welsh mountains can be had from the 14th-century spire set on a tower.

The sailing lugger, probably a fishing smack, seems to be in trouble; no sails are rigged, and thus she is needing a tow from the smaller tug, the 'Norman'.

Orford had a revolutionary new design of a towered keep with curving walls, which withstood the rebellion of 1173.

The menagerie was retained as a Tower attraction, but it also gained fame as the setting for Stanley Holloway's monologue about young Albert Ramsbottom and the 'to do' when Albert was eaten by the menagerie

The church was completed in 1906 by the addition of a tower.

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.'

The Norman church of St Mary has many Saxon features including a tower with a Rhenish helm roof, which is unique in Britain.

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

A tower was added in 1513.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

It is in the Jacobean style, with a tower imitating the medieval period.

The church of St Margaret was rebuilt in 1852 and has a tower dating from 1507, which is just visible through the trees.

We can see a tower of Stephenson's 412ft-long tubular railway bridge in the centre of the picture.

In fact it was probably the hall of a trade guild, but in its present form it owes more to John Oldrid Scott's 'restoration' in 1874 than the Middle Ages.

St Mary's church, here without a tower, became a church centre in the late 1980s.