- tower
TOWER. Always depicted as P. 23, f. 8, unless differently blazoned.
A Tower is said to be Masoned when the cement is of a different tincture from the stones.
Az. a fess or. betw. three Towers ar. are borne by Dasent of Ascott. Berks. (ELVN)
TOWER AVANT MUR. P. 23, f. 1. (ELVN)
TOWER BREACHED. i.d. f. 8. (ELVN)
TOWER DOMED. i.d. f. 12. (ELVN)
TOWER INFLAMED. i.d. f. 12. (ELVN)
TOWER with Scaling ladder. i.d. f. 9. (ELVN)
TOWER-TRIPPLE towered chain transverse. i.d. f. 11. (ELVN)
TOWER-TRIPPLE towered. i.d. f. 10, and P. 4, f. 21. See other examples at plate 23. (ELVN)
Tower
рус. башня
- фр. tour
англ tower, turret Часто упом. в связи с замком, но распространена и как самостоятельная фигура.Замок иногда изображают и содной башней, но обычно их три. Баня в её обычном ФИДЕ показана на полях.
- «Azure, a tower or» – TOWERS, Northampton.
- «Gules, in chief a castle surmounted with a tower argent; in base a lion passant gardant or» – City of NORWICH.
- «Sable, three high towers argent» – DE TOUR, Shrewsbury.
- «Sable, a plate between three towers argent» – WINSTON.
- «Argent, five towers, two, two and one gules» – CORNELL.
Башня также может нсти три меньших башенки или «turrets» и описывается при этом «triple towered» или «triple turreted», при этом башенки могут изображаться как прямыми, так и наклонёнными кнаружи. Часто отмечаются купол (dome или cupola), шпиль (spire) или коническая кровля (conical roof), ворота (port или entrance), окна (port-holes или windows), боийницы (battlements) и т.д.
- «Azure, a tower triple-towered or» – TOWERS, Isle of Ely.
- «Argent, on a mount vert a tower triple-towered sable» – CHIVERTON, Lord Mayor of London, 1658.
- «Azure, a castle triple-towered argent, port-holes and gate gules» – M'LEOD.
- «Azure, two lions rampant argent chained or, supporting a tower triple-turretted of the second» – KELLY, Ireland.
- «A tower triple-turretted of the second» – OWEN, co. Montgomery.
- «Azure, a tower[otherwise with a cupola] argent, embattled and domed, the port gules» – Gilbert DE LA TOUR, Dorset.
- «Azure, on a mount vert a castle embattled with three towers domed, on each a pennon, all or» – Town of CLITHEROW, Lancashire.
- «Azure, on a mount proper couped a castle triple-towered argent, the middle tower with dome and pennon» – NIELSON, Bothwellshiels.
- «Gules, a four-square castle in perspective with as many towers and cupolas, one at each angle, argent, standing in water azure» – RAWSON, co. York.
- «Azure, on a bend between two water-bougets or three leopard's faces gules; a chief as the last charged with a castle triple-towered argent, having from the centre tower of a pyramidical shape a banner displayed like the first» – HUNT, Limerick.
- «Sable, a quadrangular tower with four towers in perspective argent, masoned proper; the base of the escutcheon water of the last» – Town of PONTEFRACT, Yorkshire.
- «Gules, a triple circular tower in a pyramidal form or, the first with battlements mounted with cannon of the last, all within a bordure azure charged with eight towers domed or» – Town of LAUNCESTON, co. Cornwall.
- «Azure, a square castle embattled above the gate and at the top, triple-towered, the central tower larger than the dexter and sinister; on each side the central tower a sentinel-house or watch-tower, which are with the three towers pyramidally roofed, all argent, masoned sable, the portcullis and windows gules; the middle tower ensigned with a staff and banner charged with Royal arms of Scotland» – Burgh of FORFAR.
Термин «turret» иногда исп. отдельно от башни и представлять маленькую башню. Встречаются т.ж. определения «tourelle» и «torele».
- «Le Roy de PORTUGAL, de goules poudre a turelles d'or a une labeu lazur» – Roll, temp. HEN. III.
- «Le Counte de POYTERS, party dazur et de goules; per le goules poudre a turelles dor; lazur poudre o flurettes dor» – Ibid.
- «Gules, three turrets or» – TERRETZ.
- «Gules, three bars argent, on a quarter of the last a «torele» or a castle sable» – John DENE.
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