- is
known as a
broach spire.
Small or
short spires are
known as spikes,
spirelets, or flèches. This
sense of the word
spire is
attested in
English since...
-
earlier periods of the cathedral's history. The cathedral's flèche (or
spirelet) was
located over the transept. The
original flèche was
constructed in...
- full
height of the tower,
while in
between each face has rows of five
spirelets on
individual podia,
reducing in size up the tower. There's also a possibility...
-
English it has the
technical meaning of a
spirelet or
spike on the
rooftop of a building. In particular, the
spirelets often were
built atop the
crossings of...
- on
external walls with
sharply carved statues, and
several urushringa spirelets on the main shikhara.
Nyatapola Temple, Bhaktapur, Nepal,
unknown architect...
- Sekhari. The
sekhari shape has
added engaged (attached) sub-spires or
spirelets called urushringa,
echoing the main shape.
These may run up most of the...
- copper,
finished in 1882. He
surrounded the new
spire with four
smaller spirelets, made of copper. One of
these fell
during a
hurricane in 1999,
going through...
-
financial help of His Imperial-Royal Majesty,
Francis II. The
small tower (
spirelet)
above the nave was pyramid-shaped
until the
reconstruction of 2012, when...
-
additions varied from the originals. Viollet-le Duc
restored the flèche, or
spirelet, of the cathedral,
which had been
partially destro**** and
desecrated during...
-
buttresses and its top by
flying buttresses; it is
surmounted by an
octagonal spirelet topped with a ball
finial and a
carved winged figure representing commerce...
