Parts of a Castle - Glossary of Terms |
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| Bailey | The ward or courtyard inside the castle walls, includes exercise area, parade ground, emergency corral.
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| Baluster | A small column. |
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| Balustrade | A railing, as along a path or stairway. |
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| Bar hole | Horizontal hole for timber bar used as a door-bolt. |
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| Barbican | The gateway or outworks defending the drawbridge. |
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| Barrel vault | Cylindrical roof. |
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| Bartizan | An overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; sometimes as grandiose as an overhanging gallery; common in Scotland and France. |
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| Bastion | A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable. |
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| Batter | A sloping part of a curtain wall. The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; talus.
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| Battlement | Parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between; crenelations; a narrow wall built along the outer edge of the wall walk for protection against attack.
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| Bay | Internal division of building marked by roof principals or vaulting piers. |
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| Belvedere | A raised turret or pavillion. |
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| Berm | Flat space between the base of the curtain wall and the inner edge of the moat; level area separating ditch from bank. |
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| Bivalate | A hillfort defended by two concentric ditches.
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| Blockhouse | Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.).
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| Bonnet | Freestanding fortification; priest's cap. |
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| Boss | Central stone of arch or vault; key stone.
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| Brattice | Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.
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| Breastwork | Heavy parapet slung between two gate towers; defense work over the portcullis. |
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| Bressumer | Beam to support a projection. |
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| Broch | Drystone freestanding tower with interior court, no external windows (which face into the court), spiral stair inside wall, typically iron age Celtic refuge in Scotland. |
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| Burg | German stronghold. |
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| Burh | Saxon stronghold; literally a "neighborhood".
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| Buttery | Next to the kitchen, a room from where wine was dispensed. |
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| Buttress | Wall projection for extra support; flying - narrow, arched bridge against the structure; pilaster - gradually recedes into the structure as it ascends.
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