The London churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor by David Meara

The octagonal tower and one of the pepperpot towers of St George-in-the East, which Ian Nairn called “probably the hardest building to describe in London”: one of the churches discussed by David Meara, a former Archdeacon of London, and illustrated with Stuart Vallis’s fine colour photos, in Terror and Magnificence: The London churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor (Amberley, £15.99 (£14.39); 978-1-3981-1628). The book brings out Hawksmoor’s originality and influences