angle tower

Angle towers are used where a line must change direction.

The castle had two angle towers and a church, which was moved outside the walls in 1533.

The quickest way to the angled tower was straight across the courtyard.

The bottom section of the four angle towers are discernable.

In 1940 the south-west angle tower was found as well as the south and east walls.

In the hazy distance to the west were a cluster of sharp lines and angles towering over the landscape.

Another angle tower from the medieval period (13th century) remains: the door has been walled up.

The triple windows and the lofty angle towers reflect the colonial influence during subsequent restoration.

And what she faced now was the angled tower of Hylle's forbidden domain.

It consists of a central rectangular block with four spear-shaped angle towers with gun loops.

Two entrance towers were built from 1350, with three angle towers following, along with a heightening of the keep, in 1453.

The resulting medieval moated castle was approximately rectangular in plan with four angle towers and a keep within the curtain walls.

The direct current power line sometimes uses two poles or a wider, pyramidal, self-supporting lattice structure for angle towers.

The sleek six-month-old shopping center is the newest in Riyadh, an angled tower that ends in a point 876 feet above the capital.

There is a baronial tower house, an angled tower to the northwest, a four-storey basement, and an attic tower to the north.

Substantial remains are still present today, including a rare cylindrical keep, a curtain wall flanked by two half-round towers, a twin-towered gatehouse and an angled tower.

The main block of two storeys is flanked by four angle towers, one being a plain entrance tower; the chapel is situated over the portcullis chamber.

The ruins of a fortress called by the folk Sokolić rise on Vučjak hill; it has a square ground-plan and one cylindrical angle tower.

It has three gateways, four angle towers and two minarets standing 40m high, and is constructed of alternating vertical strips of red sandstone and white marble.

Delta pylons and three-leg guyed towers are also used as angle towers; they are referred to as "penguins" by Hydro-Québec linemen.

TransÉnergie uses two-level pylons for angle towers or structures on 735 kV power lines to change the direction of the line or switch the position of the conductor bundles.

Two of the angle towers are decorated with paintings of the 16th century (hunting scenes in the north-western tower, religious scenes in the south-eastern tower, where the chapel was).

'Fortified Houses' were protected by gun fire from the angle towers and bartizans, and were also provided with bawn walls with gunloops, towers and protected gateways.

Charles McKean described the castle as "a splendid double-courtyard Renaissance chateau" and also said "It consisted of a four-storey block with circular angle towers and a stair turret".

A quadrangular castle or courtyard castle is a type of castle characterised by ranges of buildings which are integral with the curtain walls, enclosing a central ward or quadrangle, and typically with angle towers.