Turret (architecture)

Turret (highlighted in red) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland

In architecture, a turret is a small circular tower, usually notably smaller than the main structure, that projects outwards from a wall or corner of that structure.[1] Turret also refers to the small towers built atop larger tower structures.

  1. ^ Gorse, Christopher A.; Johnston, David; Pritchard, Martin, eds. (2020). A dictionary of construction, surveying, and civil engineering. Oxford quick reference (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-883248-5.

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