In the surrounding countryside, he painted churches and rectories of the Loire-Atlantique region, whose Gothic steeples stand out against the azure of the sky.

It has a steeply pitched gable roof topped by a Gothic steeple with belfry and weather vane.

In the SE corner lies a ciborium in the form of a Gothic steeple, perhaps even a model of that planned for St Vitus'.

IN the south Munsterland town of Werne, the towering Gothic steeple of the large, light-filled Hallenkirche was restored last year.

The Presbyterian Church, built in 1860, is of Romanesque design, with a Gothic steeple.

The streets of this Hanseatic city dominated by many Gothic steeples also showed other, more informal signs of the profound changes, whose pace was so markedly speeded by the failure of the coup.

Its church, the Eglise Saint-Etienne, harmoniously combines Roman-esque towers and nave with Gothic steeples, choir, and chancel.

There were poplars and endless apple orchards and craggy mountains rising like Gothic steeples, garlanded with black-pointed firs and silvery birches.

The cathedral's flamboyant Gothic steeple is 243 feet high, its flat top crowned with a diadem of short spires.

His sunny, white-walled loft reflects his eclectic sensibility, featuring an 18th-century gold-leaf candlestick ($800) alongside a wooden model of a Gothic steeple ($18,137).