De Godeton was tried for theft in Southampton, before a jury from the island, and fined 287 and half marks on 27 February 1314.

This was augmented by the construction of the lighthouse, with a chantry to accommodate the priest who tended the light, and also gave Mass for those at peril on the sea.

It is a stone structure four stories high, octagonal on the outside and four-sided on the inside, originally attached to the west side of a building; remnants of three other walls are visible.

[3] In the 18th century, Sir Richard Worsley of Appuldurcombe House bolstered the structure by adding four large buttresses to prevent its collapse.

[citation needed] Nearby, there are the footings of a replacement lighthouse begun in 1785 but never completed, as the hill was prone to dense fog.