Word Finder - spire

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The stalk or stem of a plant.

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A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

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Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

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A sharp or tapering point.

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A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.

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The spire of the church rose high above the town.

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The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

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A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

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(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

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To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

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To furnish with a spire.

The church of St Michael has a Norman square embattled tower surmounted by a spire, and an apsidal chancel.

Monodonta, no jaws, spire not prominent, no umbilicus, columella toothed.

Trochus, shell umbilicated, spire pointed and prominent, British.

In Vitrina the spire is very flat and the surface glassy.

A picturesque avenue leads to the church of St Mary, principally Early English and Perpendicular, with remains of Norman work, having a lofty tower surmounted by a spire, and containing several fine monuments, tombs and brasses.

The churches of Dethic, Wirksworth and Chesterfield are typical of the Perpendicular period; that of Wirksworth contains noteworthy memorial chapels, monuments and brasses, and that of Chesterfield is celebrated for its crooked spire.

It is not certain that the projection of the spire to the originally left side of the shell has anything to do with the falling over of the shell to that side.

Shell not nacreous, without umbilicus, with prominent spire and polished surface.

The Square chapel, erected by the Congregationalists in 18J7, is a striking cruciform building with a tower and elaborate crocketed spire.

In Bulimus the spire is elongated with a pointed apex.

Can you see a church spire behind the wall?

It is beautifully placed near the river, and is a fine cruciform structure, partly Early English and partly Perpendicular, with a central tower and lofty octagonal spire.

Cephalic shield short, truncated posteriorly; eyes deeply embedded; three calcareous stomachal plates; shell external, with reduced spire.

Margins of foot well developed; eyes superficial; three chitinous stomachal plates; shell external, with reduced spire.

Planorbis has the spire of the shell in one plane.

Neritina has a very small spire, the terminal portion of the shell containing nearly the whole animal.

The 17th-century spire was removed in 1707, and replaced by a square tower, which was rebuilt in 1797; the chancel was rebuilt in 1869.

York also possesses a large number of churches of special architectural interest, including All Saints, North Street, Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular, with a spire 120 ft.

It lies on a gentle eminence in the flat fen country, and the fine Perpendicular tower and spire of the church of St Mary are a landmark from far.

The Nikolaikirche is especially remarkable for its spire, which is 473 ft.

It has a graceful tapering spire 402 ft.

Hamburg has comparatively few secular buildings of great architectural interest, but first among them is the new Rathaus, a huge German Renaissance building, constructed of sandstone in 1886-1897, richly adorned with sculptures and with a spire 33 o ft.

The massive and richly decorated square tower in the centre of the west façade, which for centuries terminated in a temporary spire, was completed in 1890, according to the original plans, by the addition of an octagonal storey and a tall open spire (528 ft.), the loftiest ecclesiastical erection in the world, outstripping the twin spires of Cologne cathedral by 21 ft.

It possesses the rare feature of two western towers, the one square and embattled, the other octagonal and bearing a short spire.

In 1561 St Paul's steeple and roof were destroyed by lightning, and the spire was never replaced.

This circumstance allows us to test the date of certain views; thus Wyngaerde's map has the spire, but Agas's map is without it.

Opposite the Hotel de Ville is the fine church of St Pierre, in the form of a cross with a low tower to which the spire has never been added.

Saving that the upper half of the original spire was struck by lightning in 1671, and not rebuilt, the cathedral is complete at all points, but it underwent extensive repairs in the 19th century.

The church of St Mary the Virgin stands high, and is surmounted by a lofty spire; it shows good Decorated and Perpendicular work.

The Prospect was acquired and laid out by Kyrle, who also planted the fine elm avenues near the church; his house stands opposite the market house, where he disbursed his charities; he erected the church spire, and is buried in the chancel, where his grave remained without a monument until Pope called attention to the omission.

The chief public edifices include the county buildings; town hall, surmounted by a spire zoo ft.

The church of St Mary is of good Perpendicular work, with Early English tower and Decorated spire.

Of the Protestant churches the oldest is the Nikolaikirche, which dates from the 13th century; the fine cast-iron spire erected in 1843 had to be taken down in 1901.

Its west portal, the decoration of the spire of the tower, and its stained glass are among the features which make it one of the finest churches of the Rouen diocese.

The west front is flanked by two towers and the crossing is surmounted by a slender timber spire.

The principal public buildings are the Nikolai Kirche (built 1390, restored 1894), with a spire 2 9 5 ft.

The parish church of St John the Baptist, with its fine tower and spire, was built about the close of the 14th century, and, though largely restored, has a beautiful chancel, Lady chapel and baptistery.

The handsome town buildings, surmounted by a fine spire 226 ft.

The church of St Bartholomew is remarkable for a fine Early English tower surmounted by a Decorated spire; there are also beautiful Decorated windows and details in the body of the church, and a richly carved octagonal font.

The hollow filled with water, and the spire of the old church is still to be seen in the middle of the lake.

Amongst these are St James, Antrim Road; St Peter's Roman Catholic chapel, with its Florentine spire; Presbyterian churches in Fitzroy Avenue, and Elmwood Avenue, and the Methodist chapel, Carlisle Circus.

The church of St Nicholas, with a graceful tower and spire, is mainly Early English, but has Norman and later portions.

The church of All Saints is cruciform, with central tower and spire.

Amongst the principal buildings are the town house (1815), with a tower and spire; the town hall (1873); the library (1887) founded by James Moffat, a merchant of the burgh, and the Carnegie Park Orphanage, also provided from the same bequest.

The two old churches, St Michael's, the central tower and lofty spire of which rise from Norman arches, and Holy Rood, partly Decorated, are greatly modernized.

The church of St Peter is a fine building with Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular porticos, with a western tower and lofty spire.

The latter is a beautiful Renaissance structure, with a magnificent facade and a delicate spire, and contains a grand hall, the Kaisersaal, in which every Whit Monday a play, Der Meistertrunk, which commemorates the capture of the town by Tilly in 1631, is performed.

Few more brilliant pieces of historical writing exist than his description of the coronation procession of Anne Boleyn through the streets of London, few more full of picturesque power than that in which he relates how the spire of St Paul's was struck by lightning; and to have once read is to remember for ever the touching and stately words in which he compares the monks of the London Charterhouse preparing for death with the Spartans at Thermopylae.

St Peter's (Roman Catholic) cathedral (begun 1839, consecrated 1844), Grecian in style, is a fine structure, with a graceful stone spire 224 ft.

The Public Walks forms a pleasant promenade parallel to the wall, and in the centre of it stands a picturesque octagonal Chapel of the Red Mount, exhibiting ornate Perpendicular work, and once frequented by pilgrims. The church of St Margaret, formerly the priory church, is a fine building with two towers at the west end, one of which was formerly surmounted by a spire, blown down in 1741.