Spires (disambiguation)

A spire is a conical or pyramidal structure tapering at the top of a building.

Spires or The Spires may also refer to:

Geography

 * Speyer (formerly Spires in English), a city in Germany
 * The Spires (Tasmania), a mountain range in the South West Wilderness, Tasmania, Australia

Buildings and structures

 * The Spires (Houston), thirty-ninth tallest skyscraper in Houston, Texas completed in 1983
 * The Spires, a commercial conference centre, operated out of Church House, Belfast by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
 * The Spires Shopping Centre, a shopping centre in Chipping Barnet, north London, England

People

 * Arthur "Big Boy" Spires (1912–1990), an American blues singer and guitarist
 * Elizabeth Spires (born 1952), an American poet and university professor
 * Greg Spires (born 1974), a former American football defensive end in the National Football League
 * Jamie Spires (born 1976), an English cricketer
 * Kit Spires (born 1954), an American politician
 * Nick Spires (born 1994), an English-Swedish basketball player

Education

 * Oxford Spires Academy, a state funded secondary school for children aged 11–18 in Glanville Road, East Oxford
 * Spires Academy, a secondary school for students aged 11–16 in Canterbury, Kent
 * The Spires College, a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Devon town of Torquay, England

Other uses

 * SPIRES (Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System}, a database for publications in High-Energy Physics
 * Saint Mary Spires, the athletic teams that represent the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas