Turret
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TURRET (from 0. Fr. tourette, diminutive of tour, tower, mod. Fr. tourelle), a small tower, especially at the angles of larger buildings, sometimes overhanging and built on corbels, ...
turret - a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
gun enclosure, gun turret
weapons platform, platform - any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons ...
Turret at the Het Schip housing in the Amsterdam School style
In current military terminlogy, 'turret' usually refers to a rotating weapon platform (gun turret).
Turrets arose in the medieval period in castles and churches, usually for stairs or as watch towers, in which case they could also be called "échaugettes"
Common in Queen Anne, Eastlake, Romanesque styles
Examples from Buffalo architecture ...
Turret
A small tower that projects from the wall of a building, usually a medieval castle. This can also be an ornamental structural at an angle of a larger structure.
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Turrets and Bay Windows at the Mark Twain House
The Hartford, Connecticut home of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) ...
turret:
a little tower, usually ornamental
transomed windows:
a window built above a door or above a lintel ...
turret
A small tower, often at the corner of a building. Common in Queen Anne Styles among others. A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level.
turret - A small, slender tower often located at the corner of a building or porch
tympanum - The recessed portion of a triangular pediment, often containing a lunette
volute - The scroll-like spiral dominating the top of an Ionic column ...
TURRET A small tower at the corner of a building.
WAINSCOT The wainscot is the wood covered lower portion of an interior wall, usually topped by a chair rail. A wooden wainscot can be plain or paneled with a patten of raised wooden trim.
Turret - A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
Veranda - also called a Lanai, a porch that runs along front or side of a building; supported by pillars or columns.
Turret
A small tower, usually projecting out from the corner of a structure. Used extensively in Victorian and Chateauesque style homes.
Vaulted/Cathedral Ceiling ...
Turret - Small tower, round or polygonal; usually a lookout.
Tympanum - Space between lintel and arch over doorway.
Vault - Stone roofing.
turret A small, slender tower.
tympanum The panel, usually semicircular, located between the underside of an arch and the top of a doorway within the arch; also the triangular space enclosed by a pediment.
TURRET A small, often ornamental tower projecting from a building, usually at a corner.
turret - a small slender tower usually at the corner of a building, often containing a circular stair. The Queen Anne style employs the turret as one of its primary characteristics and is derived from medieval castle construction.
TURRET
Very small tower, round or polygonal in plan.
TYMPANUM
The ornamental recessed space or panel enclosed by the cornices of a triangular pediment. Also, a similar space between an arch and the lintel of a portal or window.
turret (like oriel window) - a small, slender tower, usually corbelled from a corner of the building - it doesn't touch the ground.
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turret : A small tower, usually starting at some distance from the ground, attached to a building such as a castle or fortress. A small, often ornamental tower projecting from a building, usually at a corner.
Turret corbelled out from the wall.Tower archArch joining a church tower to the nave.Tower blockA generic term for any very high multi-storey building.
Turret: a small tower rising above and resting on one of the main towers, usually used as a look out point
Wall Walk: the area along the tops of the walls from which soldiers could defend the castle
Ward: courtyard or bailey ...
TURRET an ornamental tower projecting from a larger structure
VERANDAHcovered porch
VERGEBOARDSdecorative trim along gable ends of a roof or dormer. Sometimes called "bargeboards".
TURRET
Curved projection with windows, often topped by a conical roof.
TYMPANUM
Recessed, triangular face of a pediment.
turret - a little tower, set at an angle to the main wall; often at a corner and projecting above a building ...
turret A small tower, usually supported by corbels.
volute A carved spiral form in classical architecture; often used in pairs as in the capitals of Ionic columns.
voussoir A wedge-shaped component of an arch.
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Vault
arched roof or ceiling of stone and mortar, usually supported by ribs ...
Turret, Turette, Touret: A small tower or bartizan, which was often placed at the angles of a castle, to increase the flanking ability, some only serving as corner buttresses. (L. turris, tower).
Turreted: Provided with turrets.
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Ridge turret : Found more commonly on churches without towers, located over the crossing and named for their location on the ridge of the roof.
A bell turret set upon a roof or gable (Sometimes known as a Bellcote). A chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung. Also a bell tower in a general sense.
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Bartizan: An overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; sometimes as grandiose as an overhanging gallery; common in Scotland and France.
JAMB: the vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window KEYSTONE: the central stone of a true arch of rib vault LANTERN: a small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, ...
Cap-house - small chamber at the top of a spiral staircase in a tower or turret, leading to the open wall-walk on the roof .
Capital - distinctly treated upper end of a column. Capital the head of a pillar, often decorated.
Round turrets/bay windows on Main Street buildings.
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8. Kanab, UT.
9-10. Los Angeles (with LA skyscrapers peaking through the background).
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12. Rockville, CT.
13. Crawford Notch, NH.
in 1453 exposed Ottoman architects to a whole new range of buildings, the most important of which is the Hagia Sophia (Aya Sophia) which was immediately converted into a mosque by the addition of a wooden minaret to one of the corner turrets.
Victorian homes are most commonly two stories with steep roof pitches, turrets and dormers. Porches are often large with turned posts and decorative railing. Decorative gable trim, corbels, and a variation of exterior finishes.
Exteriors feature bay and oriel windows, ornamental brackets, siding a mixture of clapboards and wooden shingles applied in fancy patterns, elaborate porches, and turrets of various designs.
Exterior view #1 from turret
Exterior view #2 from turret
Exterior view from upper outside passage
Exterior view #1 from upper terrace
Exterior view #2 from upper terrace
Exterior view #3 from upper terrace ...
Lantern - A small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or dome.
Lantern cross - A churchyard cross with lantern-shaped top; usually with sculptured representation on the sides of the top.
St. Paul Cathedral ...
Belvedere
- a raised turret, lantern, tower or lookout built on top of a house or within a landscape, from which a view can be obtained. Implies some degree of comfort. (see Gazebo).
pinnacle: small ornamental turret usually ending in a pyramid or cone crowning a buttress or roof.
plasticity: sculptural modelling.
plate-tracery: tracery consisting of apertures apparently punched out of the masonry.
Bell Gable
A bell gable is a kind of turret placed on the apex of a gable at the west end of small churches and chapels. ...
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CUPOLA A small domed lantern or turret on a roof.
CUSP The point formed by the intersection of two foils in Gothic tracery.
DADO See wainscot.
Pinnacle: A vertical ornament forming the spire of a turret.
Rose Window: A circular window composed of patterned tracery arranged in petal-like, or Rose-like,, formation. ...
Overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; common in Scotland (and France).
2 or more stories
exterior wall of reddish bricks, cutstone, and/or stucco
central turret with entrance and staircase
massive chimneys
steep, complicated roofs
sometimes, even with half-timber decorations ...
Turrets, towers, verandas, and oriels
Asymmetrical floor plans
Informal interior free-flowing plans, often with large rooms and porches arranged around an open great hall (significantly less formal than Victorian dwellings) ...
spire: An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower, turret, or roof Compare with pinnacle.
springer: Needs definition ...
A style of architecture deployed in Scotland in the nineteenth century that mimics the grandeur of early French baronial castles, with turrets, gun loops and massive walls. It also draws on Scottish architecture of the 16th and early 17th century.
Truncate - To cut the top or end off, to lop, to maim.
Truss - Individual section of supportive framework bridging a space.
Turret - A small tower on a building or a structure, rising above it, a tower.
 See also: Tower, House, Architecture, Floor, Brick
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