broach spire
| In architecture, a form of spire chiefly used in English Gothic churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, especially in Northamptonshire. A broach spire is an octagonal spire which rises from a square tower without a parapet, the ‘broaches’ being the half-pyramids joining the square to the base of the octagon. |
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