- gateway.
Portcullises fortified the
entrances to many
medieval castles,
securely closing off the
castle during time of
attack or siege.
Every portcullis was...
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Portcullis House (PCH) is an
office building in Westminster, London, England, that was
commissioned in 1992 and
opened in 2001 to
provide offices for 213...
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Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in
Ordinary is a
junior officer of arms at the
College of Arms in London. The
office is
named after the
Portcullis chained...
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Portcullis House is a
proposed 35-storey skys****er in Glasgow, Scotland. The
development was
formally submitted to
Glasgow City
Council in 2021 by Watkin...
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Operation Portcullis (1–5
December 1942) was the
voyage of the
Allied Convoy MW 14 with
supplies to
Malta from Port Said in
Egypt during the
Second World...
- quasi-official
emblem of the
Houses of
Parliament is a
crowned portcullis. The
portcullis was
originally the
badge of
various English noble families from...
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language errors, as well as
mistakenly depicting ****anese
castles as
having portcullises and 17th-century
samurai as
using socket bayonets.
Carrier pigeons, used...
- with the word "loyal". His
emblem was the
Tudor rose and the
Beaufort portcullis. As king, Henry's arms were the same as
those used by his predecessors...
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forming an
additional barrier to entry. It
would be
backed by one or more
portcullises and gates.
Access to the
bridge could be
resisted with
missiles from...
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entrance to an
important structure.[page needed] Doors,
metal gates, or
portcullis in the
opening can be used to
control entry or exit. The
surface surrounding...
