Bartizan

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

A bartizan, also called guerite or echauguette, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late mediaeval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 16th century. 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. The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry corbels and could be round or square.

Bartizans were incorporated into many notable examples of Scots Baronial Style architecture in Scotland. In the architecture of Aberdeen, the new Town House built in 1868–74, incorporates bartizans in the West Tower.

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  Guarita at Fortaleza de Santiago, Sesimbra Municipality, Portugal.

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  Gardjola at the Spur, Senglea, Malta.

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

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

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  Line drawing of a bartizan

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

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  Garita at Castillo de San Cristobal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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  A British concrete position (Bartizan style), built at the North-Western corner of Sergei courtyard, Jerusalem. This is probably the sole existing testimony of the British "Bevingrad" constructed in 1946.

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  Devil's Sentry Box or the "Garita del Diablo", Castle of San Felipe del Morro, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

See also

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