"the steeple of" is a perfectly grammatical phrase that can be used in written English.
For example, you could say: "The steeple of the old church rose gracefully against the backdrop of the evening sky."
The steeple of the First Baptist Church shone to the east.
They shut up, only when another bolt struck the steeple of the Methodist Church.
While the tower has proved controversial, Sprint leases space for cellphone equipment in the steeple of the Orient Congregational Church.
IN June 1973, lightning struck the steeple of the United Methodist Church in the small coastal town of Ipswich, Mass.
For Hawksmoor restaurant in London, they created a ziggurat inspired by the steeple of an 18th-century church.
"That is 12 meters less than the steeple of St. Mark's Square" in Venice, the authors write.
A clear blue sky silhouetted the steeples of the historic churches sharply.
And yet atop hills overlooking fishing villages, reached by bridges and serpentine roads paved over just a generation ago, rise the steeples of Roman Catholic churches.
Roadside signs testify that Jesus saves, and the steeples of Baptist and Pentecostal churches can seem as ubiquitous as the tall pines and the Spanish moss.
Thrift shops and taverns line the main drag; the steeples of ethnic churches punctuate the hillside where the locked-out workers massed in 1892; big box stores and parking lots have replaced the steel mills.
The steeples of white wooden churches rising above mountain-bound small towns with trim village greens, the herds of dairy cattle on sloping mountain pastures, and the red-gold leaves of tree-lined autumnal lanes are aspects of scenic Vermont that, in painting and photography, have become symbols of the rural United States.
