Its length from east to west was six hundred and ninety feet, and the spire over the central tower rose five hundred and twenty feet into the air.
The lovely spire of St. Mary's, panelled with pomegranates for Queen Eleanor, stands almost alone of the old University Church.
The singular spireof Bampton Church is seen from Radcot Bridge, the view from which also includes Faringdon Hill, and some effective wooded heights around.
Soon above the trees peeps out the quaint wooden spire of Thames Ditton Church, topping a squat tower of the type beloved of the olden church builders of the Thames Valley.
The spire of Cassington Church, a conspicuous landmark on the left hand throughout, is a pleasanter object by far than the tall chimneys on the right, which are not redeemed by the rows of poplars that would fain hide them.
Against the bridge rises the tall and unutterably inelegant spire of St. Peter's Church, the hideous product of a mind unhappily diverted from law to ecclesiology.
On the left the level plain continues, over which we glance backwards to the spire and houses and trees of Great Marlow, and sideways for a longer distance to where the grey, stumpy tower of Little Marlow is almost concealed by foliage.
Just below it are a weir and a mill, not without a certain picturesqueness; and from a distance the spire of the church, rising from among groups of trees, enhances the attraction of the scene.
In 1361, the upper part of the steeple was partly blown down by a hurrican, after which, the present spire was built.
Mr Grey, as thespire sent its smoke up like a little volcano.
None nearer than you village where the spire was, and that was very little nearer than Deerbrook itself.
The large spire steeple, which formerly stood upon that they call the tower church, was blown down by a great storm of wind many years ago, and in its a fall did much damage to the church.
The cathedral of this city is a fine fabric, and the spire steeple very high and beautiful.
In another: A stork soiled the new gold nob on the spireand they shot it so awkwardly that it hung there and disfigured the place worse than ever.
In the subsequent growth of the shell the spire comes to project on the right side, which was originally the left.
Shell with moderately long spireand canal, ornamented with ribs, often spiny; foot truncated anteriorly.
Shell ovoid, with short spireand folded columella; foot small, no operculum; siphon short.
From it passes a common or hermaphrodite duct, which very soon becomes entwined in the spire of a gland--the albuminiparous gland.
Spire of shell much reduced; two bipectinate ctenidia, the right being the smaller; no operculum.
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.
Cyclophorus, shell umbilicated, with a short spire and horny operculum.
A Siamese head-dress and a Pra Pang or Votive spire (after P.
A Siamese head-dress and a Pra Pang or votive spire (after P.
The eleventh-century spire of St. Germain, which appears quite detached from the body of the church, is one of the very early stone spires which exist now in France.
The glory of the building is the beautiful spire to the south-west tower.
The northern tower, built in 1507 by Jean le Texier, well deserves its reputation as the most beautiful Gothic spire ever designed.
The spire of Kensington Church showed sharp as a needle on a calm sky, and it was in a sudden anguish of mind that she determined that her repentance must be postponed.
She stood, one hand on the balustrade, not daring to turn her head lest she should see the spire of the Kensington Church.
She could not see the children sailing their toy boats without thinking her ambitions were as futile, and a chance glimpse of a church spire frightened her so that she turned her back and walked the other way.
Then, in 1815, the same was done with the tower, the architect wisely superseding the primitive spire with the beautiful lantern by which St. Nicholas's is now recognised even from the opposite side of the water.
Winwick church, an ancient and far-seen edifice near Warrington, supplies another example of a spire; and at Ormskirk we have the odd conjunction of spire and square tower side by side.
The village lay hushed in midnight repose; the tall cross of the Catholic and the lofty spire of the Episcopal church flashed in the moon's rays.
The spire was entirely covered with sheets of gilded copper, and presented to the eye a surface as smooth as if it had been one mass of burnished gold.
Telouchkine, provided with nothing more than a coil of ropes, ascends the spire in the interior to the last window.
Not content with the eaves, the colony had commenced upon the belfry, and far up towards the spire every possible nook and corner seemed to be spoken for.
It has a nave, North aisles and chancel; and has a low tower and octagonal spire at the junction of the chancel and nave.
The East and West sides of the tower are longer than the others, consequently impart to the spire an ugly and deformed appearance.
The tower and spire of this church are round, like a sugar-loaf, and of considerable height; and the ascent to the top by a kind of cork-screw flight of steps.
I listened, with budding daisies at my feet, and over Wenlock spire a magic purple light.
We saw nothing but white fields which lay glittering in the sunshine, and the spire of the parish church to the west, which shone like a lance under the clear sky.
In the still light of the dying day, the old spire of the parish church loomed like a gigantic lance across the rich meadows, and through the stillness I heard the sound of the chimes.
Only the square tower, from which the spire sprang up, remains.
The spire is the simplest part of the Romanesque or Gothic architecture, and needs least study in order to be felt.
The Virgin had asserted it in tones more gentle, but any one may still see how convincing, who stops a moment to feel the emotion that lifted her wonderful Chartres spire up to God.
From Chartres it had spread through Normandy, where it produced among other things the beautiful spirewhich we saw at Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives.
Four hundred years, or thereabouts, separated the old spire from the new one; and four hundred more separate the new one from us.
One cannot compare Chartres directly with any of its contemporary rivals, but one can at least compare the old spire with the new one which stands opposite and rises above it.
Astonished or not, we have got to take this southern spire of the Chartres Cathedral as the object of serious study, and before taking it as art, must take it as history.
Any photograph shows that the Auxerre spire is also simple; and that at Etampes you have seen already to be of the Vendome rather than of the Chartres type.
King Diderik replaces Henry in all three, but Spire remains the place of the action.
How to reconcile this with the fact that the spire was blown down on to the nave in 1741 is Mr. Rye's business, not mine.
There is an odd tradition concerning the original church, of which not much is left, for in the eighteenth century the spire collapsed on to the nave in a gale of wind.
It is doubtful whether lightning or the carelessness of a workman set the lofty spire on fire in 1561, but it fell in and did much damage to the roof.
And when this St. Mary's Church was rebuilt after the Fire of 1666, Wren placed its magnificent spire on an arched base--a memorial of the ancient ecclesiastical dignity.
The drawing was made, probably for Philip, before the fall of the spire of St. Paul's in 1561.
On the day fixed for the adventure, Telouchkine, provided with nothing more than a coil of ropes, ascended the spire in the interior to the last window.
I could dimly see the sun shining through the rose tree, and the white spire of the village church; all was dim and faint as before.
At last I determined to steer by the moon, and, holding her track to the south-west of me, went on, keeping as a landmark on my left the tall spire of a church whose name I then did not know.
All around us the outlines of the city rose in a brown silhouette; but the golden cross on the spire of Notre Dame had already caught the dawn and blazed like a beacon against the grey of the sky overhead.
It must be her horse or Palings,' I said aloud to myself; and then the compline came to me clear and sweet from the spire of St. Germain.
From St. Germain des Pres, from St. Severin, from the airy spire of Ste.
At last I saw the spire of St. Jacques de la Boucherie to my right, and a few steps more brought me to the bridge of Notre Dame.
As I approached the county town I noticed that the snow was deeper than the highest building in the town, in fact, none of the town was visible, excepting about three feet of the spire of the tallest church in the place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
