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.
GalleryEdit
At wallsEdit
Guarita at Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra Municipality, Portugal.
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.
At towersEdit
Manueline Guaritas at Belém Tower in Lisbon, Portugal.
Bartizans at Feartagar Castle, Ireland.
The Peace Palace bell tower, The Hague, Netherlands
Martinstor, Freiburg, Germany
See alsoEdit
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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.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bartizan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 450. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Bradley, Simon, ed. (2010). Pevsner's Architectural Glossary. Yale University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-300-16721-4.