Unnecessary pinnacles and turrets were prohibited.
Rostov rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which he saw turrets and a church.
This was a very exposed location, apart from the 8 gun turrets, the remaining gun turrets, the remaining guns had very little protective armor.
A gateway flanked by turrets (14th century) is a relic of the Hotel de Guise, built as a gild hall for the English woolstaplers, and given to the duke of Guise as a reward for the recapture of Calais.
The mural crown (corona muralis) was the decoration of the soldier who was the first to scale the walls of a besieged city, and was usually a circlet of gold adorned with a series of turrets.