St Mary's Church in South Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, was built in 1878. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant chur
The former church in July 2022
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A flèche is the name given to spires in Gothic architecture. In French, the word is applied to any spire, but in English it has the technical meaning of a spirelet or spike on the rooftop of a buildin
St Mary's Church, South Tidworth
…also north and south aisles, a north vestry and a south porch. At the west end is a tall and slender bell turret with a tapering spire, also known as a flèche, above a massive stepped buttress. Nikolaus Pevsner calls the bell tower "perverse and wilful...à la Burges". Pevsner considers the interior "sensational…
Flèche of Sainte-Chapelle, Île de la Cité, designed by Jean-Baptiste Lassus.
Flèche of St Michael's Castle, St Petersburg, designed by Vasily Bazhenov.
Model of the flèche of Notre-Dame de Paris made for Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1859) (Museum of Historic Monuments, Paris)
The Gothic Revival flèche on the St. Peter's Church of Leuven, Belgium.