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Sign in to savethumb|250px|Before the Burj Khalifa, the [[Taipei 101 had the former tallest spire in the world.]] thumb|360x360px|The Burj Khalifa holds the record of the tallest spire in the world, with the height of thumb|360x360px|The Chrysler Building was the world-first skyscraper with a spire thumb|Spire of Salisbury Cathedral (completed 1320) (, with tower and spire)
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Gothic spires
- Crown spires
- Needle-spires and Hertfordshire spikes
- Splay-foot
- Flèches
- Pinnacles
- Traditional types of spires
- Notable spires
- Religious symbolism
- List of tallest spires (skyscraper)
- See also
- References
thumb|250px|Before the Burj Khalifa, the [[Taipei 101 had the former tallest spire in the world.]] thumb|360x360px|The Burj Khalifa holds the record of the tallest spire in the world, with the height of thumb|360x360px|The Chrysler Building was the world-first skyscraper with a spire thumb|Spire of Salisbury Cathedral (completed 1320) (, with tower and 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 shingles, or slates on the exterior.