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© Mr Colin Carron
IoE Number:
204900
Location:
ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, ABBEY LANE E15
STRATFORD, NEWHAM, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr Colin Carron
Date Photographed:
14 February 2002
Date listed:
06 November 1974
Date of last amendment:
06 November 1974
Grade
II*
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ABBEY LANE
TQ 3883 STRATFORD E15
7/12
6.11.74 Abbey Mills Pumping
Station
GV II*
Sewage Pumping Station 1868: Architects: Sir J Bazalgette and E Cooper in Italian
Gothic style. Greek Cross plan. Yellow brick with red and blue brick and stone
dressings. Slate mansard roof. Two storeys plus dormers. Entrance wing and the
ends of the other arms five bays wide with round headed central entrance porch.
Round headed windows with polychrome decoration. Larger central window to upper
storey divided by elaborate cast ironwork. Heavy stone string course to ground
and first floors. Modillioned eaves cornice. Elaborate timber door with foliated
ironwork. Slightly pointed yellow and red brick arches to recessed sash windows.
Central octagonal domed lantern with round arched gabled windows to each face,
containing case iron tracery. Elaborate wrought iron cresting to dome. Flamboyant
interior or enriched cast ironwork. Central octagonal lantern. Original beam
engines have been removed. Elaborate carving of stonework outside and inside.