A bartizan (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite, garita, or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century.[1] Most frequently found at corners, they protected a warder and enabled him to see his surroundings. Bartizans generally are furnished with oillets or arrow slits.[2] The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry corbels and could be round, polygonal or square.[3][4]
Bartizans were incorporated into many notable examples of Scottish Baronial architecture. In the architecture of Aberdeen, the new Town House, built in 1868–74, incorporates bartizans in the West Tower.
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On walls[edit]
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Guarita at Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra Municipality, Portugal -
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South-East Bartizan on Greenknowe Tower, Scottish Borders (and another one in the background) -
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Garita at Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan) in San Juan, Puerto Rico -
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Devil's Sentry Box, or the "Garita del Diablo", San Cristóbal Castle, in San Juan, Puerto Rico -
Bartizan of Fort del Fanal in Port-Vendres, Roussillon, France
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Bartizans at Feartagar Castle, Ireland -
Courtyard of Bergh House, 's-Heerenberg, Netherlands -
The Peace Palace bell tower, The Hague, Netherlands -
Martinstor, Freiburg, Germany
See also[edit]
- Bretèche
- Garret—an attic or top floor room in the military sense; a watchtower from the French word garite
- Hoarding (castle)
References[edit]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Bartizan". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bartizan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 450.
- ^ Bradley, Simon, ed. (2010). Pevsner's Architectural Glossary. Yale University Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-300-16721-4.
- ^ Sturgis, Russell (1901). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I. Macmillan. p. 219.
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