The west front of St Mary, Haggerston, a church built to the designs of John Nash in 1827, in what is now the London Borough of Hackney. Built in the Gothic style of its time, with an elaborate west front with a disproportionately tall tower. It was altered later in the 19th century by James Brooks and destroyed by bombs during the Second World War. This engraving after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was published in T.H. Shepherd and James Elmes' "Metropolitan Improvements" (1828).