Corner tower

Corner tower of the Kazan kremlin.

The corner towers were defensive towers built at the corners of castles or fortresses.

Corner towers

Two ideas have been advanced about the purpose or value of corner towers in medieval fortresses:

Towers constructed at fortress corners were larger and taller than other towers. At the bottom of these towers were defences, such as ditches, fences, and sometimes advanced forts or bastions. [2]

Corner towers may be seen on the Wall of Philip II Augustus (Tour du coin (Louvre), Tour de Nesle, Tour Barbeau), on the Wall of Charles V (Tour du bois), in the city of Carcassonne, in the Château de Pierrefonds and in the fortress of the Bastille.

References

  1. Thompson, A. Hamilton (2013-04-10). The English Castle: An Account of Its Development as a Military Structure. ISBN 0486164349.
  2. http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle_-_Tome_1,_Architecture_militaire
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