Tourelle (architecture) in the context of "Chateauesque architecture"

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⭐ Core Definition: Tourelle (architecture)

A tourelle is a type of turret, sometimes used in Chateauesque architecture.

A general dictionary defines tourelle as "a small tower (as one springing from corbeling or pier)".

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Tourelle (architecture) in the context of Scottish baronial

Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Reminiscent of Scottish castles, buildings in the Scots baronial style are characterised by elaborate rooflines embellished with conical roofs, tourelles, and battlements with machicolations, often with an asymmetric plan.

Popular during the fashion for Romanticism and the Picturesque, Scots baronial architecture was equivalent to the Jacobethan Revival of 19th-century England, and likewise revived the Late Gothic appearance of the fortified domestic architecture of the elites in the Late Middle Ages and the architecture of the Jacobean era.

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