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 of St. Andrew (Little Rock, Arkansas) 1966. St. Andrew's Cathedral was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Cathedral of St. Andrew is a Gothic Revival style structure that was built of native granite. The church measures in length and its nave is wide. The façade features two towers, the tallest of which is crowned with a spire and rises above the ground. The interior is finished in Southern yellow pine and features a marble high altar that is decorated with onyx and other precious stones. Cathedral of St. Andrew (Little Rock, Arkansas) The Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Little Rock, Arkansas,