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A single masonry tower with battlements and a door.
Also known as: Tower triple-towered
A single round or square tower drawn with courses of masonry, an embattled top and an arched doorway. Blazon distinguishes it from a castle, which shows two towers joined by a wall — a distinction routinely lost outside heraldry.
A single tower drawn with masonry courses, an embattled top and an arched door, sometimes with windows.
Distinguished in blazon from a castle, which consists of two towers joined by an embattled wall with a gateway between them.
A single tower drawn in courses of masonry with a battlemented top and an arched curve of a doorway at its base.
A tower is one structure; a castle is two towers joined by a wall. Blazon holds the distinction and ordinary usage does not.