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The southern entrance to York, Micklegate Bar. A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance.
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]
A drawbar is a defensive implement used to secure a door or gate in a medieval or Early Modern building such as a castle, [1] [2] but also churches and townhouses. When drawn across the full length of the door, it prevents the door or gate from being opened. To open the door or gate, the drawbar is pushed into a drawbar slot in the wall.
A Cointet-element on a beach, rigged with explosive "sausages" by an American Underwater Demolition Team. Cointet-element at Collevill-sur-Mer. The Cointet-element, also known as a Belgian Gate or C-element, was a heavy steel fence about three metres (9 ft 10 in) wide and two metres (6 ft 7 in) high, typically mounted on concrete rollers, used as a mobile anti-tank obstacle during World War II ...
In architecture, a machicolation (French: mâchicoulis) is an opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement through which defenders could target attackers who had reached the base of the defensive wall. A smaller related structure that only protects key points of a fortification are referred to as Bretèche.
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The outer walls provided an additional layer of protection, effectively shielding the city. Strict access control was maintained through nine gates in the city walls. [13] The inner wall, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long, encircled vital areas, including the Royal Palace and chiefs' residences. [13]
The original gate was replaced with a triumphal arch in 1789. Butcher's gate is one of the original four gates and was named for the street immediately inside the walls where many of the city's butchers were based. New gate was built in the 1790s and reinforced during the tensions that lead to the 1798 United Irish rebellion.