The Spire The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the cathedral, directs the construction of a towering spire funded by his aunt, Lady Alison, a mistress of the former King. The project is carried on against the advice of many, and in particular
Cathedral (band) Blast for their final three albums. These albums included the "inspired" and "quirky" but "uneven" "The Garden of Unearthly Delights", the double-disc "The Guessing Game", which was touted as the "most psychedelic, progressive material in the band's entire catalog" and the "true doom" of the band's farewell album, "The Last Spire". While Cathedral had contemplated disbanding in the past, most recently after the release of "The Garden of Unearthly Delights" in 2006, on 6 February 2011, Cathedral announced that they would disband after the release of "The Last Spire" in April 2013. Dorrian explained that "It's simply time for us