This four-storey medieval tower, measuring six metres north to south and five metres east to west, stands attached to the western end of a medieval church within a roughly rectangular graveyard. Built with walls 1.4 metres thick, the tower and the contemporary rebuilt western section of the church share the same width, though they remain unconnected at ground level.

The tower’s defensive architecture reveals its dual purpose as both residence and fortification. Entry was gained through a doorway at the eastern end of the west wall, strategically protected by a murder hole overhead. Inside, a vaulted ground floor chamber gives way to upper levels once supported by timber floors resting on corbels. A complex system of stairs provided access to the upper chambers: a mural stair rises within the west wall before connecting to a spiral staircase in the northwest corner, though the steps have since been deliberately removed to prevent access. At first floor level, a mural passage in the north wall leads to stairs accessing the church’s wall walk, whilst a garderobe chute exits at the north end of the west wall. The upper floors, furnished with large windows and fireplaces, would have provided comfortable living quarters for its medieval inhabitants.

By the time the Ordnance Survey visited in 1839, ivy had completely obscured the tower’s doors and windows, with only a forced doorway visible in the western side. Local historian Carrigan, writing in 1905, described what he called “the presbytery” as a strong castle approximately 10.6 metres long with walls between 2.4 and 2.7 metres thick, standing about 7.3 metres high. By 1948, this once formidable defensive residence had been repurposed as a barn, a humble fate for a structure that once guarded this strategic crossing point of the River Nore.