Small turret projecting from the top of towers or parapets
"Guerite" redirects here. For the American actress (1879–1947), see
Laura Guerite.
A bartizan (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite, garita, or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted
turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern
fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century.[1] 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.[2] The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry
corbels and could be round, polygonal or square.[3][4]
A bartizan-style British concrete position at Sergei courtyard,
Jerusalem. This is probably the sole existing testimony of the British "
Bevingrad" constructed in 1946.
Devil's Sentry Box, or the "Garita del Diablo", San Cristóbal Castle, in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Bartizan of Fort del Fanal in
Port-Vendres, Roussillon, France
On towers
Bartizans on the West Tower of the new Town House in
Aberdeen,
Scotland, 1868–1874