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Spires (disambiguation)

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A spire is a conical or pyramidal structure tapering at the top of a building.

Spires or The Spires may also refer to:

Places

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Geography

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  • Speyer (formerly Spires in English), a city in Germany
  • The Spires (Tasmania), a mountain range in the South West Wilderness, Tasmania, Australia

Buildings and structures

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  • The Spires (Houston), thirty-ninth tallest skyscraper in Houston, Texas completed in 1983
  • The Spires, a commercial conference centre, operated out of Church House, Belfast by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
  • The Spires Shopping Centre, a shopping centre in Chipping Barnet, north London, England

People

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Education

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  • Oxford Spires Academy, a state funded secondary school for children aged 11–18 in Glanville Road, East Oxford
  • Spires Academy, a secondary school for students aged 11–16 in Canterbury, Kent
  • The Spires College, a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Devon town of Torquay, England

Other uses

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  • SPIRES (Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System}, a database for publications in High-Energy Physics
  • Saint Mary Spires, the athletic teams that represent the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas

See also

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