Vertical/horizontal – I give up – it was the right way up on my desktop.
Just to remind – spires are perhaps the most dramatic of rooftop embellishments, but essentially with no practical purpose. Here on Prince’s Avenue Methodist church, red-brick with decorative stone additions and including four corner pinnacles at the base of the broach spire (for a more in-depth study of church spires see Landmarks and Beacons in Section 3 of this website). As with many late Gothic-Revival churches the original entrance to this chapel was at the base of the tower, here at the corner of the building (see booklet on St. Nicholas’ church, Beverley for another example (section 3).
This building on Prince’s Av. is an example of the Wesleyan Methodist movement (Nonconformist) becoming competitive with the Established Church in building styles and elegance, ironically roughly at a time when new churches (C. of E.) were sometimes built without towers (e.g. St. Mary’s church, Sculcoates Lane, c.1916). The Primitive Methodist chapel Queen St., Barton being in the same vein but here the Prims. building as grand, if not grander, than the Wesleyans. Like some monastic orders long before they were seduced by worldly vanity.
Personally I would rather the term ‘church’ be confined to Established Church buildings and distinguished from Nonconformist buildings where the term chapel should be used, ecumenicalism apart.