A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
Scottish term, projecting corner turret. A small overhanging turret on a towers battlement.
Overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; common in French and Scottish military architecture. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 410) Related terms: Castle
Small turret hanging over a wall or tower.
Haut Koenigsbourg, France ( Le Chateau du Haut Koenigsbourg: notre Demarche) A small overhanging corner turret or lookout projecting from a tower or wall. It was sometimes also known as a crow's nest and was almost always built at one of the highest points of the castle.
A small turret projecting from the angle on the top of a tower or parapet. ARCH. Staircases are built into the bartizans facing north and south at the intersections of the lobes of Clifford's tower. The bartizan facing west contains a garderobe.
Projecting corner turret These are particularly notable in the castles of North Wales
A projecting circular turret placed on top of a wall, usually at a corner (mainly Scots).
Battlemented parapet, or overhanging turret on a wall or tower.
An overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; sometimes as grandiose as an overhanging gallery; common in Scotland and France.
n. overhanging battlemented corner turret at the top of a castle or church tower. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary has this word as being coined by Sir Walter Scott, from a misunderstanding of an illiterate Scottish spelling of bratticing parapet.
A watch-tower or turret jutting out from the top of a castle
Small turret projecting from the corner or flank of a tower or wall, usually at the top to act as a crow's nest or lookout.
