An octagonal church spire rising from a square tower without a parapet.
（教堂塔楼的）八面锥形尖顶
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Towers and slender broach spires dominate the landscapes everywhere, rising as beacons to direct the stranger to some rare village or gracious town built of the same pleasing stone.
Though of course Norwich Cathedral spire is a broach spire, built when the Saxo-Norman one fell down in the big fire.
This specimen of early 14th century work seems to contain the transition from the broach spire to the embattled one.
The earliest part of the church is the west tower with its broach spire which dates from the thirteenth century.
The building is visible from all approaches to the town - the 190 foot broach spire dominating the roofline as can be seen in the illustration on the Leighton Buzzard home page.
It shows the thirteenth century broach spire to good effect but internal views of Saxon and Norman details in the nave walls and chancel arch were not possible.
Evidence is seen today of ancient fragments in the dog-tooth in the tower windows, stones in part of the broach spire, and in the hung canopies of the spire.
This Gothic church, built of Vermont granite, originally had a stone broach spire crowned with a finial.
The church building is mostly constructed of sandstone, in a Gothic revival style, with a fine broach spire which can be seen from several parts of the city.
The massing is confident, emphasised by the striking tower with its soaring broach spire, and the stone vaulted interior has a grandeur, which only Pearson could achieve.
The church stands 190 feet above sea level, between two seas, where its lovely thirteenth century broach spire, formerly whitewashed, made a landmark for ships in St Ives and Mounts Bays.
The tower, of three stages, with an ashlar-covered broach spire and diagonal buttresses, is of the 14th century.
To mention just a few of many, Market Harborough church is blessed with a soaring broach spire, and Bottesford, where the first eight Earls of Rutland have their tombs.
A major renovation, completed in 1864, included the new chancel, the removal of the castelated belfry, the addition of an octagonal broach spire and an office for the Reverend Macaulay.