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Battlements and Crenellations - Definitions of Battlements or Crenelations - Architecture Glossary ...
Battlements
A parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between; also called crenellations.
Battlements. A form of indented parapet around the top of castles and towers which may either be defensive or decorative.
battlements - slotted or alternating solid and open parapet that originally appeared on castles and other ancient fortified buildings.
Battlements Illustration
Battlements on the outer defensive wall at Warwick Castle.
Note the indented `honest' stone repairs.
Repair detail ...
Battlements were mainstays in Medieval forts
Found in Gothic, Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, styles
Examples from Buffalo architecture: ...
BATTLEMENTS: The notched top of a defensive wall.
CASTELLAN: The officer in charge of a castle.
CURTAIN: The connecting wall joining towers of a castle.
Battlements
parapet on top of a castle wall, with a series of gaps (embrasures or crenelles) between raised portions (merlons), allowing defenders to shoot through; also called crenellations
Bays ...
2. battlements, defence, barricade, rampart, fortification, bulwark, breastwork, castellation The soldiers crouched behind the parapet.
Translations ...
Machicolated battlements: Battlements provided with machicolations.
Machicolated corner gallery: A wall gallery situated at the corner of a fortification; usually provided with arrow slits, which added to the defensive capacity of the wall.
Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentations and raised portions); also called crenellation. Building with battlements are usually brick or stone.
catacomb ...
Irish battlements have the up-and-down rhythm of merlons and crenels interrupted at the corners, which are built up in a series of high steps; typical of late medieval Irish architecture.
Another term for battlements, but used to describe decorative battlements. Often these are made of ashlar or fine brick and include arrow slits. Many later medieval houses and churches were crenellated, like Oxbrugh Hall and Jesus College, Cambridge.
Gothic church with "castled" tower, or "battlements," and hints of pointed-arch windows.
8. Charlotte, NC.
9. Flatville, IL. German Lutheran Church.
10, 11. Woodstock, CT. Bowen House, c.1846. Referred to locally as the "Pink House".
In the battlements of Pompeii, additional protection was given by small internal buttresses or spur walls against which the defender might place himself so as to be protected completely on one side.
Lisbon Cathedral, Portugal, 1147-1500, 1755-20th century- The fortress-like quality, cavernous single doorway, pointed battlements and highly functional appearance of this cathedral is typical of the Romanesque architecture that prevailed, ...
Castellated - Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentations and raised portions); also called crenellation. Building with battlements are usually brick or stone.
Machicolation: a projection in the battlements of a wall with openings through which missiles could be dropped on besiegers
Mangonel: stone:throwing machine worked by torsion, used as a siege weapon against castles ...
The soaring battlements and elaborate machicolations could be of either French or English origin.
Steeply pitched gable roofs
Lancet, pointed arches for openings and windows
Leaded and stained glass windows
Battlements and parapets
Pinnacles and finials
Rose- and clover-shaped windows
Gargoyles
Asymmetrical floor plans ...
PARAPET A parapet is a low stone or brick wall at the top of a building. A crenelated parapet has rhythmic breaks in the wall to create a pattern of battlements.
Other distinctive architectural features are the use of huge decorative battlements and complex stucco forms.
Battlements at the top of a tower or wall. Where a parapet is built with gaps (crenels) at regular intervals, allowing the defenders to shoot through the gaps and shelter behind the solid parts (merlons).
Crocket - curling leaf-shape.
M Machicolation: A gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of castle towers and walls, with openings in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles; A projection in the battlements of a wall with ...
 See also: Battlement, Architecture, House, Parapet, Crenel
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