A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. The word comes ultimately...

design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall...

defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps...

Parapet Peak is located at southern end of Mount Robson Provincial Park on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1921 by Cyril G...

A merlon is the solid, upright section of a battlement (a crenellated parapet) in medieval architecture or fortifications. Merlons are sometimes pierced...

excessive weight. Water from a pitched roof flows down into a valley gutter, a parapet gutter or an eaves gutter. An eaves gutter is also known as an eavestrough...

Camp Parapet was a Civil War fortification at Shrewsbury, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a bit more than a mile upriver from the current city limits of...

of its bastion were protected on the north, west, and south by the Nike Parapet, named for its frieze of Nikai celebrating victory and sacrificing to their...

A parapet organ, (German: Brüstungsorgel), is a small or medium-sized independent organ that forms a unit with the parapet of the organ loft. A Rückpositiv...

Shrewsbury Cemetery, historically known as Camp Parapet Cemetery , is an old burial ground near New Orleans, Louisiana, on the site of a Confederate military...

carriage designs enabled the gun to rotate backwards and down behind a parapet, or into a pit protected by a wall, after it was fired; a small number...

advantage of the height of the promontory. The Cape Perpetua Shelter and Parapet were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Forest...

Parapet Peak is a 2,463-metre (8,081-foot) mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada. Parapet Peak is set within Garibaldi Provincial Park and...

pronunciation: [bɑ̃kɛt]), rampart walk or parapet walk is a small footpath or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet of a fortification. Musketeers...

to remain behind cover rather than being exposed when leaning over the parapet. They were common in defensive fortifications until the widespread adoption...

There are at least two runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia's marble parapets. They may have been engraved by members of the Varangian Guard in Constantinople...

that his court painter portrayed him. The man sits before an imitation parapet with three sets of painted inscriptions, each rendered to look as if chiselled...

included: Parapet: a low wall on top of the rampart to shelter the defenders. Crenellation: rectangular gaps or indentations at intervals in the parapet, the...

Ionic temple which was surrounded on three sides by a sculpted parapet. Carved into the parapet, one on each of the sides of the bastion (north, west, and...

rubber, metal, asphalt, or roofing felt, and may be concealed behind a parapet or the eaves, or in a roof valley. Box gutters are essentially placed between...

rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, has been used since Neolithic (New Stone Age) times. It is common in medieval...

of a slab from the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian acropolis. The parapet was built to protect people from accidentally...

A more permanent structure, normally in stone, would be described as a parapet or the battlement of a castle wall. In warships, a breastwork is the armored...

medieval military engineering, a berm (or berme) was a level space between a parapet or defensive wall and an adjacent steep-walled ditch or moat. It was intended...

connection between the viewer and the objects in the painting. For example, the parapet that sits at the bottom of the painting works as a visual enticement for...

3:57 8. "Arcadia Reprise" 0:57 9. "Izzit True What They Tell Me" 5:16 10. "Wings of the Parapets" 3:14 11. "I Love Our World" 5:45 Total length: 41:44...

auditorium's cylinder-shaped wall was raised up above the roof line, to create a parapet visible from the outside that resembled a circus tent. "Simple, massive...

official height is 484 m (1,588 ft), which includes the 6 m (20 ft) tall parapets on the roof. It was the fourth tallest building in Asia and also the fourth...

oil on attackers at the front door, the only entrance to the castle. The parapet at roof level is 'crenellated' providing ups, 'merlons' and downs, 'crenels'...

despondent from a recent romantic break-up, climbed out on a seventh-story parapet of an office building where she worked as a receptionist. While she was...