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24-547: (Redirected from City Gates ) A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall Places [ edit ] Gates [ edit ] City Gate, Chittagong , a gate located in Chittagong, southeastern Bangladesh City gates of Paris in French "portes de Paris", access points to the city of Paris for pedestrians and other road users City Gate (Valletta) ,

48-605: A lozenge , or diamond-shape, while clergymen and ladies in continental Europe bear their arms upon a cartouche , or oval. Other shapes are also in use, such as the roundel commonly used for arms granted to Aboriginal Canadians by the Canadian Heraldic Authority , or the Nguni shield used in African heraldry (likewise, Christian organisations and Masonic bodies tend to use the same shape, also known as

72-500: A vesica piscis ). Although an escutcheon can be used as a charge on its own, the most common use of an escutcheon charge is to display another coat of arms as a form of marshalling . Such escutcheon charges are usually given the same shape as the main shield. When there is only one escutcheon charge, it is sometimes called an inescutcheon . The word escutcheon (late 15th century) is based on Old North French escuchon ('shield'). The earliest depictions of proto-heraldic shields in

96-651: A complex of three large residential buildings in Belgrade, Serbia Western City Gate (Serbian: Zapadna Kapija Beograda ), a skyscraper in Belgrade, Serbia Other uses [ edit ] City Gates (album) , a 1983 album by the George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet See also [ edit ] Moshe Aviv Tower , commonly known as City Gate (Hebrew: שער העיר), its original name Gate City (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing City Gate Topics referred to by

120-524: A decoration above the head of every official on the Austerlitz table, commissioned by Napoleon for propaganda purposes. The term "console" in architecture is generally used for elements which provide support, such as corbels on a console table . A console in heraldry is a decorative frame or support, generally in an architectural or illustrative context, surrounding a heraldic shield or escutcheon, which serves to add interest to and mitigate

144-916: A gate located at the entrance of Valletta, Malta Martin city gate , one of three still existing city gates of Cochem, Germany Other places [ edit ] City Gate (Frankfurt) , a skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany City Gate (Port of Spain) , the main terminal for the buses and maxi taxis in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago City Gate (Warsaw) , a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland City Gate Mahon , office and medical complex in Mahon, Cork, Ireland City Gate Towers (Romanian: Turnurile "Porţile Oraşului" ), two office buildings in Bucharest, Romania Eastern City Gate (Serbian: Istočna Kapija Beograda ),

168-407: A lozenge-shaped shield with the unaltered escutcheon of pretence in the centre. Women in same-sex marriages may use a shield or banner to combine arms, but can use only a lozenge or banner when one of the spouses dies. The points of the shield refer to specific positions thereon and are used in blazons to describe where a charge should be placed. An inescutcheon is a smaller escutcheon that

192-659: A lozenge. An oval or cartouche is occasionally also used instead of the lozenge for armigerous women. As a result of rulings of the English Kings of Arms dated 7 April 1995 and 6 November 1997, married women in England, Northern Ireland and Wales and in other countries recognising the jurisdiction of the College of Arms in London (such as New Zealand) also have the option of using their husband's arms alone, marked with

216-447: A lozenge—and suo jure peeresses , who may display their own arms alone on a lozenge even if married. In general a woman was represented by her paternal arms impaled by the arms of her husband on an escutcheon as a form of marshalling . In modern Canadian heraldry, and certain other modern heraldic jurisdictions, women may be granted their own arms and display these on an escutcheon. Life peeresses in England display their arms on

240-446: A small lozenge as a difference to show that the arms are displayed for the wife and not the husband; or of using their own personal arms alone, marked with a small shield as a brisure for the same reason. Divorced women may theoretically until remarriage use their ex-husband's arms differenced with a mascle . Widowed women normally display a lozenge-shaped shield impaled, unless they are heraldic heiresses, in which case they display

264-572: Is a shield that forms the main or focal element in an achievement of arms . The word can be used in two related senses. In the first sense, an escutcheon is the shield upon which a coat of arms is displayed. In the second sense, an escutcheon can itself be a charge within a coat of arms. Escutcheon shapes are derived from actual shields that were used by knights in combat, and thus are varied and developed by region and by era. Since shields have been regarded as military equipment appropriate for men only, British ladies customarily bear their arms upon

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288-494: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages City gate City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods and animals. Depending on their historical context they filled functions relating to defense, security, health, trade, taxation, and representation, and were correspondingly staffed by military or municipal authorities. The city gate

312-485: Is placed within or superimposed over the main shield of a coat of arms. In practice, the words inescutcheon and escutcheon are often used interchangeably. The current diplomatic emblem of France incorporates the pelta escutcheon, a wide form of shield (or gorget ) with a small animal head pointing inward at each end. This is Roman in origin; although not the shape of their classic shield, many brooches of this shape survive from antiquity. A form of pelta appears as

336-664: The Age of Chivalry , at about the time of the Battle of Crecy (1346) and the founding of the Order of the Garter (1348). The shape is therefore used in armorials from this "classical age" of heraldry. Beginning in the 15th century, and even more throughout the early modern period , a great variety of escutcheon shapes develops. In the Tudor era the heraldic escutcheon became more square, taking

360-426: The spandrels of the trussed timber roof of Lincoln's Inn Hall, London. The shape of the top, the sides and the base may be separately described, and these elements may be freely combined. The highly complex Baroque style shields of the 17th century come in many artistic variations. In English heraldry , the lozenge has been used by women since the 13th century for the display of their coats of arms instead of

384-520: The appearance of a city, such as Bab Bou Jalous in Fes . With increased levels of traffic, city gates have come under threat in the past for impeding the flow of traffic, such as Temple Bar Gate in London which was removed in the 19th century. [REDACTED] Media related to City gates at Wikimedia Commons Escutcheon (heraldry) In heraldry , an escutcheon ( / ɪ ˈ s k ʌ tʃ ən / )

408-881: The city's fortifications, but during the Age of Absolutism their functions become closely linked to the collection of customs , the so-called octroi , which from 1660 onwards was charged to the market town's coffers. When absolutism in Denmark came to an end after the revolutions of 1848 , gate consumption was abolished in 1852, and since then the city gates also began to disappear. Medieval Danish city gates are found today only in Vesterport , Faaborg , and Mølleporten , Stege , as well as in Flensburg , today in Germany . Further city gates, in one form or another, can be found across

432-408: The escutcheon or shield, which are associated with warfare. In this case the lozenge is shown without crest or helm . For the practical purpose of categorisation the lozenge may be treated as a variety of heraldic escutcheon. Traditionally, very limited categories of women would have been able to display their own arms, for example a female monarch—who uses an escutcheon as a military commander, not

456-432: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title City Gate . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_Gate_(disambiguation)&oldid=1195151097 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

480-484: The second half of the 12th century still have the shape of the Norman kite shield used throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. By about the 1230s, shields used by heavy cavalry had become shorter and more triangular, now called heater shields . Transitional forms intermediate between kite and heater are seen in the late 12th to early 13th centuries. Transition to the heater was essentially complete by 1250. For example,

504-402: The shape of an inverted Tudor arch . Continental European designs frequently use the various forms used in jousting, which incorporate "mouths" used as lance rests into the shields; such escutcheons are known as à bouche . The mouth is correctly shown on the dexter side only, as jousting pitches were designed for right-handed knights. Heraldic examples of English shields à bouche can be seen in

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528-407: The shield of William II Longespée (d. 1250) shown with his effigy at Salisbury Cathedral is triangular, while the shield shown on the effigy of his father William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (d. 1226) is still of a more elongated form. The shield on the enamel monument to Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (d. 1151) is of almost full-body length. The heater was used in warfare during the apogee of

552-582: The world in cities dating back to ancient times to around the 19th century. Many cities would close their gates after a certain curfew each night, for example, a bigger one like Prague or a smaller one like the one in Flensburg, in the north of Germany. With increased stability and freedom, many walled cities removed such fortifications as city gates, although many still survive; albeit for historic interest rather than security. Many surviving gates have been heavily restored, rebuilt or new ones created to add to

576-484: Was also commonly used to display diverse kinds of public information such as announcements, tax and toll schedules, standards of local measures, and legal texts. It could be heavily fortified, ornamented with heraldic shields , sculpture or inscriptions, or used as a location for warning or intimidation, for example by displaying the heads of beheaded criminals or public enemies. Notably in Denmark, many market towns used to have at least one city gate mostly as part of

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