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Spire

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires are typically made of stonework or brickwork, or else of timber structures with metal cladding, ceramic tiling, roof…

Notable spires, Flèches & Gothic spires

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Etymology

Gothic spires

Crown spires

Needle-spires and Hertfordshire spikes

Splay-foot

Flèches

Pinnacles

Traditional types of spires

Notable spires

Religious symbolism

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Spire

Nodes91
Edges90
Triples115
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021978
Components1

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Spire

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related to Notable spires · 42
Spire → Antoni Gaudi's, Antwerp Cathedral, Barcelona, Baroque, Beauvais Cathedral's, Beauvais's, Brick Gothic, British Isles, Burghley House, Catholic Cologne Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral's, Designed, Eiffel Tower, Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, England, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Europe, Gaudi, Gaudi's, Germany
related to Traditional types of spires · 27
Spire → Baroque, Burgos Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral, Christopher Wren's, Clad, Cologne Cathedral, Complex, Conical, Freiburg Minster, Gothic, Many, Masonry, Norwich Cathedral, Openwork, Other, Oxford Cathedral, Prague Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Some
related to Gothic spires · 16
Spire → Additional, Chartres Cathedral, Cologne, Freiburg Minster, Germany, Gradually, In, In England, Lichfield Cathedral, Notre-Dame, Paris, Salisbury Cathedral, St Columba, The, The Gothic, Triangular
related to Flèches · 7
Spire → English, French, French Gothic, Gothic, In, On, They
related to Pinnacles · 5
Spire → As, Gothic, In, Notre-Dame, Paris
related to Etymology · 4
Spire → English, Middle Low German, Old English, This
related to Crown spires · 3
Spire → Crown, European, The
related to Needle-spires and Hertfordshire spikes · 3
Spire → British Isles, Hertfordshire, In
related to Religious symbolism · 3
Spire → Gothic, In Gothic, It
is a · 2
Spire → particularly tall and narrow spire emerging from a tower surrounded by a parapet, tall

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spires tower gothic tallest cathedral church flèche building towers built masonry tall structure pinnacles pyramidal plan century notre-dame often architecture

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Spireis atall0.90text
Spireis aparticularly tall and narrow spire emerging from a tower surrounded by a parapet0.90text
Spirerelated to Crown spiresCrown0.60section
Spirerelated to Crown spiresEuropean0.60section
Spirerelated to Crown spiresThe0.60section
Spirerelated to EtymologyThis0.60section
Spirerelated to EtymologyEnglish0.60section
Spirerelated to EtymologyMiddle Low German0.60section
Spirerelated to EtymologyOld English0.60section
Spirerelated to FlèchesFrench0.60section
Spirerelated to FlèchesGothic0.60section
Spirerelated to FlèchesEnglish0.60section

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