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Church Spires
A Making History listener has just returned from a trip to Turkey and was rather taken with the minarets, or tall spires, found on Mosques. Could it be, she wondered, that British crusaders saw these back in the 11th and 12th centuries and then introduced them here? Making History consulted Dr Richard Plant at Christie鈥檚 Education in London who explained that the church spire was more of a technological innovation of the French gothic than a cultural or spiritual introduction.