Spire Court, Plymouth
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Spire Court, Plymouth
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 27 Mar 2010
This spire is on top of a bank overlooking Blandford Road. The housing, flats for the elderly, was built in 2002 on the site of St Teresa's Roman Catholic church, which Cherry & Pevsner describe as a 1958 church, a small rectangle with an east clerestory-tower, but no mention of a fleche or spire. So I assume the spire, whose brickwork matches the flats, is contemporaneous with them and serves simply as an acknowledgment of the fact that a church stood here. Update: thanks to John Haley, who tells me that he remembers the spire was part of the church of St Teresa, and so was not built to match the flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.38873
Longitude
-4.117645