The West Towers, in contrast with the central tower, are heavily decorated and are topped with battlements and eight pinnacles each, again in the Perpendicular style.

The walls and roofs are supported by buttresses and surmounted by battlements, pinnacles and pierced parapets, many of which were added by George Manners during his 1830's restorations.

These and the other towers have overhanging parapets just like the mediaeval machicolations, and are finished at top with battlements, remains of which have been found at Nimroud and Kouyunjik, and at Kale Shortage, the supposed capital of Assyria before Nineveh.

The cap ( roof ), is of stone, usually conical in shape, although some of the towers are now crowned by a later circle of battlements.

This is mainly because both the facade to Turl Street and the front quad are still of only two storeys ( although the parapets and battlements are of the 19th century ).

On this wall the battlements are white, of the next black, of the third scarlet, of the fourth blue, the fifth orange ; all these colors with paint.

Alnwick's battlements are surmounted by carved figures dating from around 1300 ; historian Matthew Johnson notes that around this time there were several castles in northern England similarly decorated, such as Bothal, Lumley, and Raby.

Above this, are the roof gallery and battlements, which provide good views across the Lincolnshire landscape, as far as Boston to the south, and Lincoln to the north.

The series of arches of the central terrace, the battlements, and the thick walls are the most representative aspects of the original construction.

Thus the ambassadors who return from Persia and Thrace are resented by Dikaiopolis because he has been living roughly as a sentry on the battlements while they have been enjoying themselves abroad.

The battlements are roofed and the sentry walk is a balustraded balcony.

:: that among the shoals to avoid, …, is the narrow, ‘ cramped conception of Marxism-Leninism simply as a position to be defended, a fortress to be held, with every portcullis closed while one peers out over the battlements at all who are not ‘ our people ’ wandering on the distant plain ’

Separate tours are also available of the dungeon and the battlements.

The gallery passes round three sides of a tall bastion and an assailant rushing through it would be under attack from the battlements of the bastion and from those of a high wall and strong tower on the counter scarp of the moat, which are so built as to face in that direction.

The Greek leaders are afraid that the boy will grow up to avenge his father Hector, and rather than take this chance, they plan to throw him off from the battlements of Troy to his death.

It is the north and west ranges of the house that have never received the architectural acclaim they deserve, remodelled circa 1750 to a design by the architect Thomas Iremonger, with battlements and ogee topped windows, they are a form of gothic known as Strawberry Hill.

Four factions on two sides wage the War of the Ring: Representing the Free Peoples are the horse-lords of Rohan, and Gondor with its forges and battlements.

There are special events held often in the castle and visitors are now able to walk along the battlements and into Martens Tower.

The base of the tower and the first two stages are Saxon with four doorways, the top of the tower is 15th century as are the clerestory, the nave battlements, the north doorway and porch, the middle arch of the arcade, the west window with busts of a king and queen and the east window with a leaf frieze The tower is the earliest part of the church, preserved in the middle despite restricting views of the chancel from the nave here, is the current site of the altar.

The bastions are with battlements which have loopholes.

Alternatively, the ram could be set ablaze, doused in fire-heated sand, pounded by boulders dropped from battlements or invested by a rapid sally of troops.

Edward may have been aware of his son's bisexual orientation even though he did not throw the prince's favourite from the castle battlements as depicted in Braveheart.

The Moor then flings himself from the battlements to avoid punishment.

In Euripides ' play Trojan Women, written in 415 B. C., the god Poseidon proclaims, “ For, from his home beneath Parnassus, Phocian Epeus, aided by the craft of Pallas, framed a horse to bear within its womb an armed host, and sent it within the battlements, fraught with death ; whence in days to come men shall tell of ' the wooden horse ,' with its hidden load of warriors .”

King George IV waves from the battlements of the Half Moon Battery in 1822, drawn by James Skene

During the conclusive British attack on Seringapatam on 2 May 1799, a British shot struck a magazine of rockets within the Tipu Sultan's fort causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke, with cascades of exploding white light, rising up from the battlements.

The name Hulst ( Holly in English ) would appear to come from the shape of the battlements.

The Blarney Stone () is a block of bluestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about from Cork, Ireland.

Only the ground floor of the original construction remains after a fire in 1777, so it was rebuilt from the first floor upwards between 1778 – 1782, and battlements were added to it in 1823.

:" Vert within a representation of town walls having two towers and a Gateway between towers Argent three Saffron Flowers issuant from the battlements of the gateway blown and showing the stamens proper And for the Crest On a Wealth of the Colours Upon a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion rampant Azure grasping in the dexter paw a representation of the Ancient Mace of the Borough of Saffron Walden proper "

According to local tradition, the origin of the custom dated from the time of King John ( 1199-1216 ) when, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, standing on the battlements of the castle, saw two bulls fighting in the meadow beneath.

In the European battlements of the Middle Ages the crenel comprised one-third of the width of the merlon: the latter, in addition, could be provided with arrow-loops of various shapes ( from simply round to cruciform ), depending on the weapon being utilized.

In the battlements of Pompeii, additional protection derived from small internal buttresses or spur walls, against which the defender might stand so as to gain complete protection on one side.

The battlements of the Arabs had a more decorative and varied character, and were continued from the 13th century onwards not so much for defensive purposes as for a crowning feature to the walls.

Quoting from a contemporary newspaper commentary of 1861, when the Priory was still under construction: The noble Gothic pile of finely chiselled limestone, with its battlements, turrets, buttresses and extensive façade, and spacious arched doorway ; the architraves of grouped columns, retreating to the depth of several feet, convey to the mind an idea of architectural grandeur seldom associated with the country residences of our gentry.

Owain's forces allegedly attacked it in either 1401 or 1403, capturing the garrison of sixty men inside, whom he then hanged from the curtain walls over the battlements, then beheaded and buried nearby.

The battle ended when the Grand Theongist threw himself into Vlad, dragging him from the battlements of Altdorf in a deathly embrace.

This would generally be conducted in the face of arrow fire from the battlements, and the defenders would naturally attempt to push ladders away from the wall.

Mortality is the pacing of a brief and dangerous watch, and to all sentinels, whether at Elsinore or on the battlements at Mycenae, the coming of dawn has its breath of miracle.

Parts of the moats remain as well as the five bulwarks and the battlements.

The battlements run along the top of the hill.

The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work with turrets, gargoyles, and battlements.

The external design, with its symbolic towers and, originally, battlements, echoes a style popular a century or more before, closely resembling Kirby Muxloe and the Beauchamp gatehouse at Warwick Castle.

One wall of the great tower, various parts of the outer bailey and the battlements were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian William Dugdale, who published his results in 1656.

Often toward the later part of the era they included battlements and arrow loops.

The building is an extravagant Neo-Gothic work with turrets, gargoyles, and battlements.

Corbel tables support part of the battlements.

Others they drowned in the river or strung up around the battlements while Catherine and the court watched.

It is four storeys high, has battlements and is pinnacled.

The Moor then kills both children on the battlements in full view of the man.

The west tower has elaborate buttressing, panelling and battlements.

* Hamilcar and another Carthaginian general, Hannibal, besiege Mathos ' mercenary army at Tunis and crucify the captured mercenary leaders in sight of the mercenary battlements.

When the ascending terraces had been built, there had been constructed beneath them galleries which carried the entire weight of the planted garden and rose little by little one above the other along the approach ; and the uppermost gallery, which was fifty cubits high, bore the highest surface of the park, which was made level with the circuit wall of the battlements of the city.

The spire was reduced to a ' Hertfordshire spike ', the roof pitch greatly reduced and battlements liberally added.

Grimthorpe first reinstated the original pitch of the roof, although the battlements added for the lower roof were retained.

He personally held up the battlements and was the first to enter the Greek encampment.