Alamgir Gate, Mandu, Madhya Pradesh India

The barbican in front of this consists of a walled enclosure with two square bastions built at flank. The gate arched, and the height of building, from the present level to the top of the Kanguras 11 m. The covered passage measure about 9.5 m x 4 m. and there are four arched of which the three inner ones support barrel-shaped roof. The outer portion of the building has a flat roof, covered with slabs. The architecture of gateway is rather plain, except a band of carved masonry along piers of the outer arch of some conventional type.