Spire FM Spire FM Spire FM is a UK radio station based in Salisbury, Wiltshire. It was awarded the licence to broadcast to the Salisbury and the surrounding areas by the former Radio Authority, now Ofcom, in 1991. The station takes its name from the spire of Salisbury Cathedral. It was fully launched on 20 September 1992 (the licence ran from the 5th, when test transmissions began to be shared with programmes about the Salisbury Arts Festival). Spire FM broadcasts from City Hall Studios in Malthouse Lane, Salisbury, part of the City Hall entertainments venue. Spire FM has won a prestigious Sony
History of the world's tallest buildings <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Also set record at time of completion as tallest building ever built. The height of Lincoln Cathedral is disputed by some, but accepted by most sources. The completion date for the spire is given as 1311 rather than 1300 by some sources. Also the height of the spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral, destroyed by lightning in 1561, is disputed, for example Christopher Wren (1632–1723) judged that an overestimate and gave a height of . The spire of Mole Antonelliana in Turin, completed in 1889, is claimed to have been tall; however, the upper part of the structure