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a spire racing toward heaven while quietly doubling as the town's tallest middle finger to gravity.
means The tall, pointed tower rising above a church, usually capped by a spire and often housing the bells.
from From Old English stēpel, the noun cousin of stēap meaning 'high, steep, lofty' — the same family that gives us 'steep.' So at its root a steeple is simply 'the steep thing,' a building's deliberate reach upward, named for the climb your eyes make to its tip.
- lightning bait
- Tallest point meant most struck; bells often killed ringers
- sound machine
- Designed to hurl bell sound across whole valleys
- finger logic
- Pointed shape symbolizes a hand directing eyes upward
- record holder
- Ulm Minster's spire stabs 161 meters skyward
- chase origin
- Steeplechase races aimed riders at distant church spires
salisbury cathedral spire — english gothic spire, 123 meters tall, completed 1320, tallest medieval spire in britain
ulm minster spire — german gothic steeple, 161.5 meters, completed 1890, tallest church spire in the world
notre-dame de chartres — french cathedral with asymmetrical 12th-13th century spires, one romanesque and one gothic