Meanwhile, seagulls the size of winged chihuahuas stare malevolently down from steepled sandstone spires.
The tall and wide buildings still look distinctly Victorian from the exterior, with light-coloured brick and red-roofed spires.
Thousands of racing fans would gather under a 30, 000-square-foot heated tent with the spires of St.
Rust-brown tiled rooftops, church spires and onion domes: its skyline is a credit to Swiss understatement.
The hulking Churchill Downs with its famous twin spires is still imposing, but is showing its age.
Key had faced 110 balls before he edged one off James Spires behind to wicketkeeper Ian Clifford for 62.
So, in effect, do a few ecclesiastical spires: Each firm's charitable programs benefit churches (the town's church-to-bar ratio is 29:2).
Hundreds of parishes have already negotiated deals with mobile-phone companies to conceal masts and dishes in church towers and spires.
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Bryce Canyon National Park bristles with otherworldly spires, and waterfalls plunge into pools perfect for a wild swim in nearby Zion.
Belgium has passed similar legislation, and Switzerland banned the building of minarets, the tall spires that often stand next to mosques.
There is plenty of debate about what makes one building taller than another--should spires be counted or only occupied floors, for example?
These second- or third-home buyers are all getting pitched by the dozen or so other developers putting up condo spires in Vegas.
Certainly, despite its poetically lauded "dreaming spires", Oxford - with its industrial heritage of automotive production, including Morris and Mini cars - feels more urban.
The tradition of including spires in the heights of buildings dates back at least to 1929 when the Chrysler building was completed.
And in Bali, with its sunsets over temple spires and miles of terraced rice paddies, expect holiday dishes laced with Kaffir lime jus.
Many of the spires have similar fruit motifs, and resemble grapes, apples, or oranges piled on one another as if at a supermarket.
Robin Martin-Jenkins was also back in the dressing room in the next over after pulling Richardson to Jamie Spires at mid-off for 33.
In keeping with the era's revivalist predilections, the limestone facade incorporates Gothic spires and gargoyles, Romanesque arches, a Victorian conservatory and a freestanding Renaissance stairway.
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It winds through the cottages of the Cotswolds toward the gleaming spires of Oxford, and continues along a surprisingly serene route into central London and the Globe Theatre.
The city of Odense was the childhood home of Hans Christian Andersen and it still looks the part, with cobbled streets, gothic spires and eccentric statues dedicated to its famous son.
The glowing peaks and spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha are sublime, closely rivalled by the illuminated stupa of Wat Arun (the Temple of Dawn).
On the plains of Normandy the Eurostar train speeds quietly past six or seven church spires of myriad styles within a minute, reaching a top speed of 186 miles an hour.
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The twin spires of Basilica of St Anne de Beaupre loom over the low-rise fast-food joints, motels and banks that litter the road leading to this, one of North America's main sites of pilgrimage.
For those who have experienced loss and for those who have gained through it, the Special Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving at the Spires Conference Hall in Belfast was an emotional day.
One unpredictable feature of Parinacota is the snow formation known as penitentes, thin, icy spires that can grow several metres tall and can make progress difficult, or even impossible by blocking the usual climbing routes.
At least the Freudian symbolism of tall towers, even taller church spires and ruined homes remains, and the basic story is intact, in the spirited production that opened Monday night at the BAM Harvey Theater.
The angular spires and towers of a futuristic city dominated the skyline, even though the view from the window was of queues of Glasgow buses and taxis and the wrought iron exterior of Central Station.
Some of the scenes are filmed in Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation, with trains curving around the spires that Navajos believe are petrified deities, and Depp and co-star Armie Hammer looking out beyond the cliffs.
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