After these things Count Baldwin repaired a tower at the castle of Tornehen which his predecessors had built, but which was damaged by great age, and had so many breaches that scarcely one stone lay on another. And he so repaired and renovated it that it seemed new and entirely different from what it had been before. Also Baldwin made this tower-like structure a labyrinth because of rising galleries, chamber upon
Chamber, vaults, rooms, and secret places, like the river Meander. Also in the foundation of the tower he dug a secret dungeon, prison-like place infernal, in order to frighten the wicked as well as punish them. In this prison the poor criminals awaited their horrible judgment and in chains with vermin ate the bread of sorrow, and lived in great misery and regret. And at the exit of the tower was made a vault of stone, where was a chapel in which he placed a canon named Siger and to him gave over it in charge. The walls, however, around which often conflicting pugulists and athletes often were seen, he rebuilt and fortified, sharpened, and roughened. A ditch most firm and secure, around part of the church, surrounded and protected the estate; and to the western side the waters of the river Reveria were dammed in their course by earth and stone with great labor and expense, so that it made a great fishpond.
Source: Lambert, cure of Ardre. The Chronicle of Guines and of Ardre. Ch. LXXVII, pp. 54-55.
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