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unusual facts about The Spire



Bart Has Two Mommies

Reverend Lovejoy's obsession with building a spire to "compensate for his own sense of smallness" is a reference to The Spire by William Golding.


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Bristol Belvedere

In 1962 another Belvedere lowered the spire onto the new Coventry Cathedral.

Bruce Munro

Munro is also known for 'Light Shower', an installation made for the spire cross within Salisbury Cathedral.

Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

The French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou has depicted the church in the original French illustrated version of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, but has the spire turned the wrong way around, that is, clockwise instead of anticlockwise.

Filey

In 1931 the spire of a church was damaged by the Dogger Bank earthquake.

Illiana Christian High School

Other opportunities include Bill of Rights Convention, Bowling, Care Convention, Chapel, Christian Service Club, Class Trip, Close-Up, Drama, Fine Arts, Flag Corp, Landlopers, Math Team, Mock Trial, Echo (The Student Newspaper), Scribes, Senior Service, Student Council, Tutor Team, & The Spire (the Illiana Christian High School yearbook).

James Elmes

In 1813-4 he restored the top part of the spire of Chichester Cathedral, reconstructing the pendulum device incorporated into it by Sir Christopher Wren to counteract the effects of strong winds.

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Based on sketches made during a visit in 1863, Bierstadt paints the valley from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking due west with the prospect framed by El Capitan on the right, and Sentinel Rock on the left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock is visible in the distance.

Mesa Arizona Temple

In a departure from the style of temples constructed prior, the Mesa temple (along with the temples in Laie and Cardston) was built in a style suggestive of the Temple in Jerusalem, lacking the spires that have become a mainstay of temples built since then, and was in fact the last LDS temple constructed without a spire.

North Christian Church

The primary light source into the sanctuary is the oculus at the base of the spire, directly above the Communion table.

Ohio University

The College Green features Galbreath Chapel, the spire of which, topped with a brass weather vane, is modeled after that of the portico of Nash's All Souls Church in London.

Spire of Dublin

The centrepiece of this regeneration was to be a replacement monument for Nelson's Pillar, the Spire of Dublin, chosen from a large number of submissions in an international competition by a committee chaired by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Joe Doyle.

WKVP

At the "IQ 106.9" debut on April 16, 2012, the station transmits from a radio tower located on the spire of One Liberty Place in Center City with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 9,000 watts at a height above average terrain (HAAT) of 244 meters.