"spire" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun meaning “a tall, slender structure or part of a structure, typically one which tapers to a point, such as the steeple of a church.” Example sentence: The spire of the old church towered above the town.
To the southwest, Stane Street stretches downhill towards the white stump of Halnaker Windmill, and the dark grey spire of Chichester cathedral beyond.
Johnson said the council had studied Childs' plans for the building, and noted the symbolic height of the spire and the beacon that will shine from it – which is designed as a complement to the light at the top of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.
Without its spire, One World Trade Center measures a mere 1,368ft, shorter than the 1,451ft Willis Tower – formerly the Sears Tower.
But to finish, a quiz – courtesy of CharlieFarley, who challenges readers to recognise his home city from these clues: It has the cathedral with the second tallest spire in England.
Since One World Trade Center reached its full height, when its 408ft steel spire was installed on 10 May, there has been a growing lobby that argued that the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, was actually taller.
He also noted that the spire was a "permanent part of the building" and not an antenna, a flagpole or a sign.
The debate centred over whether the 408ft steel structure on top of the New York skyscraper was a spire or an antenna.
In original design for One World Trade Center, the spire was to have been covered in decorative cladding.
With its soaring church spire, pastel-coloured chalets and splendid lakeside location, Hallstatt looks every inch a picture-postcard alpine town – a place that echoes with the sound of cowbells and yodelling, every windowbox overflowing with edelweiss.
"There are no antenna emitting equipment on the spire," Johnson said.
The Mecca Clock Royal Tower Hotel, with more than 800 rooms, occupies what will soon be the world's second-tallest building, a structure incorporating the world's biggest clock, with faces at least six times the size of Big Ben's, and capped by a spire topped with a golden crescent.
