Minerva Building design changes and a further increase in height, to 53 floors and . Its location marks the Eastern gateway to the City and the building might have acted as a focus for the regeneration of the eastern City fringe. The site is outside the strategic views of St. Paul's, and does not contain listed buildings, although it does infringe upon a conservation area. It also lies within one of the three proposed viewing cones for the Tower of London, as do 30 St Mary Axe, Heron Tower and Tower 42. Although the official height was , the building was claimed
St Mary and St Peter's Church, Harlaxton of Queen's College, Oxford. St Mary and St Peter’s received a National Heritage Grade I building listing in 1966. An archeological Watching Brief was held in 2005 during trench groundwork at the south, west and north of the church to establish pipes for a new heating system. During the work evidence of earlier building was not discovered but a stone fragment was uncovered together with a number of small bones and a skull. St Mary and St Peter's received funding for repairs to epitaphs from The Society of Antiquaries of London under its "William and Jane Morris Fund". St Mary