Celestial City

In reference to the spires of the churches.

(poetic) Nickname for Fredericton: the capital of New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1891, Charles G. D. Roberts, The Canadian Guide-book […] , New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 147:
  Then the river widens out, and over its shining expanse we see the long bridges, the spires, and the billowy foliage of the city of elms, Fredericton, which is called by New-Brunswickers, in affectionate banter, the “Celestial City.”
(fiction) Heaven in the allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 29:
  […] I once was, as I thought, fair for the Cœleſtial City, and had then even joy at the thoughts that I ſhould get thither.

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