StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: tower

The Control Tower & watch office ... Grade II listed ! Well, time & the weather have taken their toll, and there is an appeal for funds to continue the on-going restoration project. yorkshireairmuseum.org/control-tower/save-our-tower

The southern / main entrance to Castell y Bere was exceptionally heavily built for the time, with two drawbridges over dry moats and a couple of Barbican type towers, plus the round tower overlooks the same area.

Stamfordham's village church, St Mary the Virgin, viewed from the North - over part of the old graveyard. Note the slope to my right, I think that this break of slope probably marks part of the original boundary. The modern graveyard is further to the right [West], down the slope. {see the 2016 drone image}

Abutment / chain anchorage on the south [English} bank. The seated statue on the left is the bridge's designer, a Royal Navy Captain, Samuel Brown. Although John Rennie was responsible for the stonework. There was a toll booth in the form of a small, two room cottage against the base of this structure. Tolls were payable between 1820 and 1888. Since the cottage was demolished in the 1950s, the layout is indicted by different coloured paving. Note: the stone width markers ! despite having been open for only four months or so, there are several gouges already. Also, only one car is allowed on the bridge at a time ...

The House of Manannan was built in 1997 around the repurposed Peel Railway Station and the part of the site that had been used in 1979 to house "Odin's Raven". The original station dates from the Peel to Douglas line opening in 1873, it was closed in September 1968.

The lower section of a "tower" associated with Wellington Pit (coal mine), surrounded by the eroded remains of coal mining waste and demolition rubble.

All that remains of Panxworth "All Saints" church in 2022. Built largely of squared flint, with stone quoins, with some brick. Founded in the 14th century, all but derelict so extensively rebuilt by 1847 [A habit frequently indulged in by the Victorians]. Always had a small congregation so by the 1970s it was declared redundant and largely demolished in 1981 for safety reasons. There have been a couple of "recent" burials, going by the gravestones. The tower is maintained largely for wildlife [I assume bats and/or owls]

Corrin's Tower [or Folly] visible on the top of the hill. www.visitisleofman.com/experience/corrins-folly-p1295731 On a future visit we will make time to walk up there.

Tower on the curtain wall has been partially destroyed. This damage was part of the slighting ordered when the castle was captured (by treachery, after a long siege) in 1645 by Parliamentary forces. . [209 views on 21Feb2024 when added to HWW]

View of Corfe Castle on top of the hill, seen in the late afternoon light from the Church Knowle road.