The very top of the tower, seen from inside: an octagonal chamber ringed on every side by pointed-arch windows, with a heavy timber frame of posts and beams standing at its centre — the internal skeleton of the spire's roof. Around the window openings the brick is severely worn away, with whole sections of arch missing in places, and the floor is covered in plaster dust, shards of broken glass and splintered wood debris.
According to the estate's owners, this wooden spire frame is, much like the sandstone steps (exhibit No. 88), another part of the building's structure formally designated as valuable and to be preserved during restoration. Together with the tower's already-seen exterior arcade crack and crumbling ornament (exhibits No. 77, 80–82), this photograph completes the record of the whole tower's masonry condition — from the ground-floor staircase all the way up to the very tip of the spire — before the estate was acquired.
As in the other exhibits in this series, the animation only shifts the camera barely perceptibly — the frame is already real and in colour.