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Tower House Privy and Stairs. View from south-east with walls and privy chute removed.

Tower House Parlor. View from south. Hypothetical portraits of Edmund Spenser and his wife Elizabeth Boyle are on the facing wall. A harp rests at the ready.

Tower House Parlor. View from north. The doorway to the downward stairwell can be seen on the left. The 'Raleigh window' can be seen facing center. The room would be used for dining and recreation. Pewter dishes are on the sideboard, wall-shelves and table. A harp can be seen facing on the right. The room has oak paneling for warmth. The floor is littered with straw. The stone-flagged floor rests on the storage-room vault below, and wooden rafters hold up the ceiling beneath the storage room, above.

Tower House Parlor. View from above. The table has been set for eating. When not in use, it and the chairs were likely lined up against the walls.

Tower House Interior-south

Tower House Interior. View from south. Except for the Chapel on the fourth floor (on the right, middle), the floors above the third story no longer exist. Their reconstruction here is entirely hypothetical.

Tower House Interior-north

Tower House Interior. View from north. The 'Raleigh window' can be seen in the third-story Parlor. The floors above it no longer exist.

Tower House from above.

Tower House Chapel. View from the west of the east window. Spenser compares the 'lookes' of 'Cynthia', or Queen Elizabeth I, in his poem, 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe', as being 'like beames of the morning sun,/ Forth looking through the windowes of the east,/ When first the fleecie cattell have begun/ Upon the perled grasse to make their feast.' (lines 604-07)

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. The entrance to the staircase, to the north, is on the right out of sight. A window is on the south wall. The make-shift altar (a table and cloth) stands beneath the east window. A small recess in the wall, or aumbry, containing a leather vessel for wine, a pewter plate and chalice (for religious services) can be seen on the right.

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. A late-medieval mural fresco of St. Christopher, who holds the Christ child and is trampling a snake (representing the devil), are on the facing wall.

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