Glovers' Needle, Worcester

St Andrew’s Church in Worcester is a lone spire no longer attached to the church which was demolished in the 1940s. The spire is Georgian (1751), rather than medieval, the original also destroyed in a fire. It is elegant and reaches to a greater height than the city’s cathedral. Its nickname is the Glovers’ Needle and it seems to be a much loved local landmark.

Bizarrely, and ingeniously if true, Nathaniel Wilkinson rebuilt the spire by employing kites to transport the stones from ground to site. This sounds rather far fetched, but if the kite and wind alike were strong enough, there is no reason why it cannot be true. I also have no doubt that the labouring men of Worcester were not sorry that this simple aircraft relieved them of that most awkward of jobs.

In John 3:8, the Lord Jesus said:

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

How gain we the power to keep to the Christian path, to resist temptation, to get to the final destination? By the Holy Spirit’s power, not our own. Thank God, we have a stronger friend than Wilkinson as he flew his stones up a giant needle.