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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

Geography

• 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

• 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

• Arthur "Big Boy" Spires (1912–1990), an American blues singer and guitarist
• Elizabeth Spires (born 1952), an American poet and university professor
• Greg Spires (born 1974), a former American football defensive end in the National Football League
• Jamie Spires (born 1976), an English cricketer
• Kit Spires (born 1954), an American politician
• Nick Spires (born 1994), an English-Swedish basketball player

Education

• 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

• 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

• Spire (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages