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Spire

Spire — a memorial in england-london, United Kingdom.

Benchmark on buttress of St Paul's (New England) Church - geograph.org.uk - 6499953

Phil Richards — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit
15 min–45 min

About

Spire is a memorial located in england-london, United Kingdom. Sourced from OpenStreetMap (ODbL licence); see local listings for visitor information, opening hours and admission details.

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From the Wikipedia article

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 shingles, or slates on the exterior. Since towers supporting spires are usually square, square-plan spires emerge directly from the tower's walls, but octagonal spires are either built above a pyramidal transition section called a broach at the spire's base, or else free spaces around the tower's summit for decorative elements like pinnacles. The former solution is known as a broach spire. Small or short spires are known as spikes, spirelets, or flèches.

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Coordinates
52.5921, -0.2549

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Where is Spire?
Spire is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.5921°, -0.2549°.