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A ridge turret is a turret or small tower constructed over the ridge or apex between two or more sloping roofs of a building. It is usually built either as an architectural ornament for purely decorative purposes or else for the practical housing of a clock, a bell or an observation platform. Its function is thus different from that of a roof lantern, despite a frequent similarity of external appearance. It can have a flat roof but usually has a pointed roof or other kind of apex over. When the height of a roof turret exceeds its width it is usually called a tower or steeple in English architecture, and when the height of a ridge turret's roof exceeds its width, it is called a spire in English architecture or a Flèche in French architecture. ==Images== Mairie Ars Moselle.jpg|Ridge turret on Ars-sur-Moselle town hall, France Kloster Einsiedeln IMG 6353.JPG|Ridge turret on Benedictine abbey in Einsiedeln, Switzerland Greenlane Clinical Centre Old Buildings I.jpg|Ridge turret on Greenlane Medical Centre in Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand. Rapperswil - Liebfrauenkapelle - Schloss Kräutergarten 2011-08-06 15-08-24.jpg|Ridge tower of the ''Liebfrauenkapelle'' in Rapperswil, Switzerland Predigerkirche - Künstlergasse 2011-08-10 09-48-22.jpg|The high ridge turret of Predigerkirche Zürich, its clock tower in the background. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ridge turret」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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