'The church steeple is the glory of the English landscape. Over a thousand years it has evolved a grandeur and a beauty unrivalled in Europe. It is the icon of every parish. At last it has achieved its biographer' Simon Jenkins The illustrations on these notecards are all taken from Julian Flannery's Fifty English Steeples, the first systematic survey of the fifty most important medieval parish church towers and spires in England, covering a period of some 500 years.