Gaoler’s Room

This small room may have been used for supervising the dungeon, hence its name. Before the restoration there was a toilet here that was used by the families living in the tower. It is halfway between the stairway affording access to the interior of the Old Cathedral and that descending to the Dungeon Room.

It retains architectural elements from the medieval period.

This room is small with a rectangular ground plan and its ceiling takes the form of a pointed barrel vault. It is part of the construction of the tower in the 13th century at the time of the first extension of the initial defensive watchtower. It may have been used for supervising the enclosure, hence its name of the “Gaoler’s Room”.

The lintel of the door has the same shape as that giving access to the Chapel of San Martín from the Old Cathedral at the foot of the Belfry Tower. In the area that links up with the stairway a lintel of carved stone can be seen in the form of a polylobate arch together with ancient ceramic paving probably from the medieval period, which has been preserved below the metallic platforms that reproduce the steps of solid plaster filling that existed before the restoration.