As passersby checked the damage by day, they saw a scorched steeple. But they also saw a cross still standing tall. The cross is now balancing on a wooden beam dating back to 1875. "There was a ...

As he sought steeples, crosses and domes in some neighborhoods that seemed as “foreign as distant lands,” the Los Angeles native, now 44, began to appreciate his city’s ethnic diversity as ...

(WMTV) - A lightning strike is to blame for a fire that damaged a Jefferson church steeple, firefighters reported ... expected to go up and take down the cross that remains at the top of the ...

One of Waco’s landmark steeples has been temporarily removed ... which stands 63½ feet tall with a 10-foot metal cross on top. In all, it weighs about 6,100 pounds, said Tom Ragland, a ...

An Islamic group is awaiting a vote from the Syracuse Landmark Preservation Board on whether it can remove the crosses from the steeples the former Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Syracuse's North ...

Crews removed the cross from atop the St. Peter Catholic Church steeple in Jefferson City on Thursday. It had stood on the lofty pinnacle 137 years, since 1883. The 8-foot copper cross and the 4 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The cross that fell off its spire at the Fifth Avenue United Methodist Church was placed back in its spot on Wednesday. The copper cross was first placed on the church in ...

also known as the Suppedaneum cross, which has another bar near the bottom) to roadside memorials and, of course, church steeples. But the actual crosses Romans used for executions probably took a ...

Crews removed the two crosses from atop St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, marking the first major step toward completely replacing the building’s steeples. The church, which is on the ...

Some of the work includes regilding, or reapplying a layer of gold, to the cross at the top of the steeple, painting and stucco repair. The regilding will be done with the help of Canning ...