This is the scene that would greet you if you were to stand in the original doorway. The central pillar naturally draws the eye up its column, and onto the beautifully vaulted ceiling, which was about 3m thick. The quality of workmanship is of the highest order - in the days of concrete and plasterboard such work is rarely, if ever seen. The pillar was cut back just below the first floor level to support the floorboards, and also held the roof and cannon on its carriage.
The first floor has long since rotted away, making it difficult to give you an idea of how the interior really looked. Therefore, a logical sequence of pictures is more difficult to achieve than if the floor were still there, and divided up into rooms, which was the sort of virtual tour that I wanted to depict. The sequence of photographs will follow the order in which I explored the tower.
The wooden steps are modern, but most of the interior is otherwise untouched, which is rare for a building of this age. The doorway at lower right is the magazine entrance, and the doorway above it to the right of the central pillar is the stone staircase to the roof, flanked by a fireplace on both sides. Most of these features will be examined more closely in the following pages.