Gatehouses
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q277760
Library of congress:
sh 95009411
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Morant, R.W. The monastic gatehouse, 1995:p. 15, fig. 4 (Gatehouse: normally free-standing, but maybe joined to flanking precinct-wall; accommodation mosty overhead)
- OED.
- Web. 3:Gatehouse (a house or other bldg. connected or associated with a gate; part of a gate (as of city wall or palace) with rooms often used for guards; an erection over a dam from which the gates are controlled)
- AAT(gatehouses Uf: entrance lodges, lodges (gatehouses) lodges, entrance)
- Am. her. dict.(gatehouse: a lodge at the entrance to the driveway of an estate)
- LC database(gate lodges)
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Wikipedia description:
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most heavily armed section of a fortification, to compensate for being structurally the weakest and the most probable attack point by an enemy. There are numerous surviving examples in France, Austria, Germany, England and Japan.
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