How many spires does Litchfield Cathedral have?
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral of penal law. Work began in 1863, and resulted in the first major commission for the Victorian architect William Burges, who designed most of Fin Barre's architecture, sculpture, stained glass, mosaics and interior furniture. Saint Fin Barre's foundation stone was laid in 1865. The cathedral was consecrated in 1870 and the limestone spires completed by October 1879. The cathedral is mostly built from local stone sourced from Little Island and Fermoy. The exterior is capped by three spires: two on the west front and above where the transept crosses the nave. Many of the external sculptures, including the gargoyles, were
Elizabeth Spires Elizabeth Spires Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor. Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University. Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her poems have appeared in "The New Yorker", "Poetry", "American Poetry Review", "The New Criterion", "The Paris Review" and many other literary magazines and anthologies. She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the