This tower is the oldest of the three. It was a residential tower and either the vaults and the first-floor chimney are contemporary to the building of the tower. It is the only tower of the three to reveal vestiges of polychromies on a whitewash render dated late XII^th or early XIII^th c.

Look at the lime rendering on the wall, on which was drawn a now faded false-stone pattern in red ochre, simple horizontal lines and double vertical ones.

The splayed vaults of the arrow-slits have also been decorated with the same false-stone red pattern.

The wall-arches were framed by a set of two red and yellow strips. Look carefully at the jack-arches (six the arches divided by the ribs), you will notice medallions and one faded fleur-de-lis.

The ribs were painted in plain red and white.

Beneath the chamfered abacuses, the crocket consoles are representative of the late XII^th century gothic style. They rest on human figures, whose hair was uniformly painted in yellow outlined in black; the crockets were painted in red with blue highlighting.

A red strip outlined the consoles and ended in a triangle with a ring.

Note that all the figures stare straight ahead with bulging eyes.

There is only one lightwell in this room.

In the archway, note the traces of a fire, which could be a sign of damage caused by English mercenaries in around 1365, during the One Hundred-Year war.

 © March 2023