- temple tower: A ziggurat.
- Tower of Babel: A temple-tower presumed to be the great ziggurat at Babylon, which no longer survives…
- angle tower: Tower at the conjunction of fortified walls.
- beacon tower: A tower intended to support a flaming beacon, that is to say, a fire of alarm or warning. 2. In modern times, a towerlike structure intended to indicate a line of approach on entering a harbor, or to warn vessels of the location of a shoal or rock, or the like; often without any provision for a fire or other light.
- nuraghi: See beehive.
- belfry tower: Also see belfry tower.
- bell tower: Used in Italianate style; sometimes the tower is even shaped like a bell, also called campanile.
- clocher: French bell-tower.
- kolokolnya: In Early Russian architecture, a bell tower.
- border tower: Along the Scotch and English border, a small fortified tower or keep, common from the early Middle Ages to the 17th century. It was the manor house of those districts, and as such formed a place of refuge for tenants and neighbors.
- bridge tower: A tower erected upon a bridge, commonly at one end, to serve as a defense, gate, memorial, or otherwise. A celebrated example is the fine Gothic tower at one end of the bridge at Prague.
- buttress tower: A tower which flanks an arched entrance and acts, or appears to act, as a buttress.
- chullpa: A prehistoric stone tower of Peru. Above a burial chamber were living quarters for the family of the deceased.
- chulpa: A prehistoric stone tower of Peru. Above a burial chamber were living quarters for the family of the deceased.
- dokhma: Also see tower of silence.
- drum-tower: A large, circular tower, usually low and squat.
- watchtower: A tall tower for military observation, often part of a castle.
- gabled tower: A tower finished with a gable on two sides or on all sides, instead of terminating in a spire, or the like.
- gate tower: Entrance to a walled city.
- tower-house: Compact fortified house of several story’s with its main chamber or hall on an upper story, usually over vaulted lower floors. Common in Scotland (where many spectacular examples survive) and Ireland, tower-houses were still being built in 17th c.
- hunting tower: A building erected on high ground or at the junction of different roads, from which persons could see some part of the progress of a hunt.
- minah: A tower, usually a memorial monument, found especially in India.
- minar: A tower, usually a memorial monument, found especially in India.
- lantern tower: A tower having the form of a lantern. 2. A tower for carrying a lantern.
- leaning tower: A tower, usually detached and slender for its height, which overhangs its base; the most famous example of such a tower is at Pisa, Italy, where the 179 ft (54.6 m) tower is 16.5 ft (5 m) out of perpendicular.
- maiden tower: The keep or principal tower of a castle.
- Martello tower: A defense tower originating in 16th century Italy.
- chapra: A tower having a parabolic outline of a nagara temple in India.
- peel tower: Same as peel.
- pele tower: Also see peel.
- pile tower: Also see peel.
- look-out: See prospect tower.
- lookout tower: A belvedere.
- prospect tower: Tall building on high ground commanding a view, called a look-out or standing tower. See belvedere; gazebo.
- pylon tower: A truncated pyramidal form characteristic of Egyptian monumental architecture, when applied to a tower.
- noraghe: Also see nuraghe.
- nuraghe: Prehistoric round towers and agglomerations of stone huts peculiar to Sardinia.
- round tower: In early Christian architecture, especially in Ireland, a conically capped circular tower of stone construction; used for defense.
- shot tower: A high tower, usually round, in which shot are made by dropping molten lead from an upper story into a cistern of water.
- sikra: A tower of a Hindu temple, usually tapered convexly and capped by an amalaka. Also, sikra.
- smoke tower: Any high construction, more important than a chimney stack, used to convey smoke from a building to the outer air, as in some churches.
- cogla: A round stair tower. Also see cochleare.
- stair tower: A projecting tower that contains a staircase serving all floors; usually found in castles and chateaux.
- tower: A building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either standing alone or forming part of a larger building.
- corner turret: A small and somewhat slender tower, located at the corner of building.
- stair turret: A building containing a winding stair which usually fills it entirely. 2. A stair enclosure which projects beyond the building roof.
- tourelle: A small turret projecting from the wall above ground level.
- turret: A small, slender tower usually at the corner of a building, often containing a circular stair.
- watch turret: Also see bartizan.
- turris: A tower of a fortification, placed at intervals in the walls of an ancient city or any other fortified enclosure.
- wall tower: A tower built in connection with or forming an essential part of a wall, especially one of a series of towers to provide a strengthening of the fortification.
- specula: A watchtower of the ancient Romans, on which guards were regularly stationed to keep a lookout and to transmit signals.
- standing-tower: See prospect tower.
- watch tower: In medieval fortifications, a powerful tower used for observation or as a final refuge for the inhabitants, although unlike a donjon it was not normally equipped with living quarters.
- watch-tower: Tower or station from which observation is kept of the approach of danger, as in a city wall. 2. As watch-house.
Also see Architecture index.