Spire spires were an astounding architectural innovation, beginning with the early fourteenth-century spire at Freiburg Minster, in which the pierced stonework was held together by iron cramps. The openwork spire, according to Robert Bork, represents a "radical but logical extension of the Gothic tendency towards skeletal structure." The organic skeleton of Antoni Gaudi's phenomenal spires at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona represent an outgrowth of this Gothic tendency. Designed and begun by Gaudi in 1884, they were not completed until the 20th century. In England, "spire" immediately brings to mind Salisbury Cathedral. Its 403-foot (123-m) spire, built between 1320 and 1380,
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