needle spire

The tower is surmounted by a needle spire, set back from the parapet.

It features a square belfry with a pyramidal roof and a needle spire.

They camped the first night in a small clearing on a knoll surrounded by needled spires.

She glanced over his shoulder at the halfholo view on the far right, the needle spire of Centerpeak.

The top stage consists of a drum with corner cylinders, on which is a needle spire with lucarnes.

It was refurbished during the Victorian period and the needle spire rebuilt in 1954, replacing the previous wooden spire which dated from 1483.

As our tyres whispered past the needled spire of St Mary Magdalene, a rainbow striped the blue-black sky.

Everything, from the wide-flung gates at the end of the bridge to the highest needle spire, was built of the same airy crystal as the bridge.

It has a needle spire carried on four flying buttresses in the manner of that of St Nicholas in Newcastle.

The symmetrical five-bay double-height church has a three-stage tower fronting its forward gable, supporting a shingled needle spire.

The church, known as Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, was an asymmetrical gothic composition with a needle spire.

As he walked he found himself staring up at the familiar, shimmering gold domes, the two-thousand-pound crosses and needle spires of St. Peter's Basilica.

Unencumbered by gravity, needle spires and slender minarets rose bright from the outer surface next to Bey, and lacy filaments arched between them.

The spire of St Benedict's church is considered by many experts to be one of the finest needle spires in England, second only to Salisbury Cathedral.

There are plans also to floodlight the Cathedral's magnificent needle spire (built by Dunn and Hansom in 1872) which is an important feature of the city's south-western skyline.

A 2009 guide to the buildings of the region describes the building as "a Victorian estate church with its needle spire rising over trees", which it says is "disproportionately tall", and adds that it was "one of Kennedy's better works".