Bartizan

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Line drawing of a bartizan

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]

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.

Gallery[]

At walls[]

  • Guarita at Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra Municipality, Portugal.

  • Gardjola at the Spur, Senglea, Malta.

  • Garita at El Cañuelo in the Bay of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

  • South-East Bartizan on Greenknowe Tower, Scottish Borders (and another one in the background)

  • Bartizan at Fort de Chartres, a French colonial era fort in Illinois on the Mississippi River.

  • Garita at Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

  • 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.

At towers[]

  • Bartizans on the West Tower of the new Town House in Aberdeen, Scotland, 1868–74.

  • Manueline Guaritas at Belém Tower in Lisbon, Portugal.

  • 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[]

  • Bretèche
  • Garret—an attic or top floor room in the military sense; a watchtower from the French word garite

References[]

  1. ^  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.
  2. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bartizan". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 450.
  3. ^ Bradley, Simon, ed. (2010). Pevsner's Architectural Glossary. Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-300-16721-4.
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