South Kyme Tower
The tower is a four storeyed battlemented keep, approximately 77 ft in height and built in ashlar dressed oolitic Ancaster limestone. It is the remains of a moated fortified manor house or 'castle' built by Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus in the 1350s as a flamboyant status symbol.
It probably had two towers and another two storey building adjoining the present tower.
The only invasion the "castle" experienced was by an inquisitive bullock in 1946 which climbed the 108 steps of the narrow spiral staircase to the top. Villagers struggled to get the bullock down, eventually frightening him down backwards.
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