Gate

Gate From LoveToKnow 1911 GATE, an opening into any enclosure for entrance or exit, capable of being closed by a barrier at will.

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Gate House - The complex of towers, bridges, and barriers built to protect each entrance through a castle or town wall.

A gate or doorway, esp. great or magnificent one, any entrance, the arch over a gate. Portico A range of columns with a roof forming a covered walk along the front or side of a building, colonnade, a porch before the entrance of a building.

Lych Gate - gate structure, usually of timber with a roof and open sides, at the entry to a churchyard, and providing a resting place for coffins. (from lich, old English for a corpse) ...

side gate for defenders to go out on an attack; the postern was often used for this purpose Saltire diagonal, equal-limbed cross ...

Nauen Gate, Potsdam, 1755 Gothic House, Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, 1774 Friedrichwerdersche Kirche, Berlin, 1824-30 Castle in Kamenz (now Kamieniec ZÄ…bkowicki in Poland), 1838-65 Burg Hohenzollern, 1850-67 ...

Field gate: A gate in the curtain wall leading out to the country surrounding a castle. See postern.

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Wrought iron gate ornamentation - Albright Memorial Library, Scranton, Pa. Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece (anthemion) Corinthian capital - Olympia Museum, Greece ...

Portcullis A gate made of wood or metal to shut off the entrance to the gate passage. It was raised and lowered from a room above Piscina A stone basin in a church or chapel that contained water for washing holy objects used in the services.

The famous Baghdad gate which stands at the south-east corner of the city is now thought to date to the twelfth century. It is a baked-brick construction with a main gateway set below a row of two-tier blind niches separated by engaged columns.

barbican: fortified outwork defending the gate of a castle or town. bar-hole: holes behind door to receive timber bar used as door bolt. barmkin: Scottish term for defended courtyard of a castle. Also, the wall enclosing such an area.

A wood and metal or metal gate, welded to form a giant grid that would slide down within the entrance of the gatehouse or hornwalk or barbican to reinforce the security of the door or to trap attackers.

clairvoieA Clairvoie is a gate, fence or grille placed in an otherwise solid barrier to provide a 'clear view' of the outside scenery.

Portal - A portal is a lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions. Formerly the term portal meant a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.

Portal - A doorway, entrance or gate. One that is large and imposing. Quatrefoil - An architectural ornament having four lobes or foils. Rayonnant - A thirteenth-century slender radiant style from the court of Louis IX.

Portal: A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing. Portico: an open porch with columns supporting a pedimental roof, creating the entrance and\or centre piece of a facade.

A grating dropped vertically from grooves to block passage or gate in castle; of wood, metal or a combination of the two.

Rail - A minor horizontal structural member (e.g. of a balustrade, fence, gate, door or window). It may be top rail, intermediate rail or bottom rail. Railing - A balustrade.

embattlements - A parapet with indentations or embrasures as seen here, at left, capping a medieval town gate. embattled molding - having indentions like those of a battlement.

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