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is known as a broach spire. Small or short spires are known as spikes, spirelets, or flèches. This sense of the word spire is attested in English since...

English it has the technical meaning of a spirelet or spike on the rooftop of a building. In particular, the spirelets often built atop the crossings of major...

financial help of His Imperial-Royal Majesty, Francis II. The small tower (spirelet) above the nave has been pyramid-shaped until the reconstruction of 2012...

full height of the tower, while in between each face has rows of five spirelets on individual podia, reducing in size up the tower. There's also a possibility...

earlier periods of the cathedral's history. The cathedral's flèche (or spirelet) was located over the transept. The original flèche was constructed in...

with a north vestry. On the junction of the nave and the chancel is a spirelet with a wooden bellcote and a pyramidal slate roof. The porch has a stone...

Sekhari. The sekhari shape has added engaged (attached) sub-spires or spirelets called urushringa, echoing the main shape. These may run up most of the...

octagonal with four lancet bell openings. Above this is an eaves band and a spirelet. The windows in the body of the church are cusped lancets. Inside the church...

Tyntesfield. It has a three-stage west tower surmounted by pinnacles and a spirelet. There is a two bay chancel, with a Cosmati work floor and four bay nave...

roof is a square bellcote with a pyramidal roof on which is an octagonal spirelet. Internally, the screen was made by a local blacksmith, David Jones. As...

on external walls with sharply carved statues, and several urushringa spirelets on the main shikhara. Nyatapola Temple, Bhaktapur, Nepal, unknown architect...

doi:10.1016/0022-3115(87)90019-5. Benedict, U.; Dabos, S.; Dufour, C.; Spirelet, J. C. (1986). "Neptunium compounds under high pressure". Journal of the...

porch. The crossing has a pyramidal roof, topped by a small tower with a spirelet. Inside, the wooden roof structure is of interest, being particularly complex...

unadorned." The main shikhara tower usually has many urushringa (subsidiary spirelets) on it, and two smaller side-entrances with porches are common in larger...

buttresses and its top by flying buttresses; it is surmounted by an octagonal spirelet topped with a ball finial and a carved winged figure representing commerce...

additions varied from the originals. Viollet-le Duc restored the flèche, or spirelet, of the cathedral, which had been partially destroyed and desecrated during...

running up the sides, developed alternative forms with many smaller "spirelets" (urushringa). Two varieties of these are called sekhari, where the sub-spires...

copper, finished in 1882. He surrounded the new spire with four smaller spirelets, made of copper. One of these fell during a hurricane in 1999, going through...

early English era, containing a stained glass rose window and an octagonal spirelet. The present Methodist Church in Howard Terrace was opened as a Primitive...

pier surrounded by six arches forming an arcade. The roof has a central spirelet. There is a parapet with crocketed finials above the arches. Wikimedia...