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Title: Spire Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:spire URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT 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.