"Guerite" redirects here. For the American actress (1879–1947), see Laura Guerite.
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]
A bartizan-style British concrete position at Sergei courtyard, Jerusalem. This is probably the sole existing testimony of the British "Bevingrad" constructed in 1946.
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 on the West Tower of the new Town House in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1868–1874
^ 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. ISBN978-0-300-16721-4.
^Sturgis, Russell (1901). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I. Macmillan. p. 219.
January 01, 1970
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