This is a beautiful specimen! Its proportions are perfect. It is no way what you would call a tall round tower - in fact its quite squat and chubby, but something about it is just right. It could be the proportions or it could just be the location, on a spur looking out over the river and valley below. Not even the reletively new looking church ruins next to it take anything away.
The stone conical roof is still present and beneath this the four windows, as usual facing the cardinal points, have pointed tops, echoing the shape of the tower. Perhaps it is this that makes it look so pleasing to the eye.
Unusually the doorway, which is raised up some 5m from the ground, is bricked up. I've not seen that before.
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