NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392549
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER
Statutory Address:: NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392549
Date first listed:: 08-Apr-2008
List Entry Name:: NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER
Statutory Address 1:: NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORTHERN OUTFALL SEWER BRIDGE OVER CHANNELSEA RIVER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Newham (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 38900 83209

Reasons for Designation

A bridge of 1900-2 (to designs prepared in 1891-4) for the Northern Outfall Sewer, Sir Joseph Bazalgette's enormous and heroic programme of works to give London mains drainage in the 1860s. It is an impressive structure in its own right that has strong group value with the Grade II* Abbey Mills Pumping Station and other listed buildings at the site.

Details

251/0/10086 Northern outfall sewer bridge over Cha 09-APR-08 nnelsea River

II Sewer bridge. 1900-2, to designs prepared in 1891-4 under Maurice Fitzmaurice, engineer, following a report by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir Alexander Binnie, engineers, for the London County Council. Steel girders with ornamental cast-iron railings over guilloche friezes. Supported by outer brick abutments and two massive central supporting piers; polychrome white and black brick to more public north side; yellow stock brick to south, all English bond. Millstone grit copings. Northwest abutment wall curved, south abutment parapets extend about 18m to west and 15m to east to terminating piers. Interior not inspected.

The Northern Outfall Sewer was part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's enormous and heroic programme of works to give London mains drainage in the 1860s. Abbey Mills Pumping Station (q.v.), just to the west of this bridge, was the grandest single part of these works. The station itself was enlarged in 1891-6 (B Station, q.v.). The bridge was rebuilt and widened in 1900-2 to carry five 9ft-diameter sewers, two more than its predecessor. It is a significant part of the group of historic structures at Abbey Mills, reflecting early expansion of the complex to cope with London's growing population. It is also an extraordinary structure in its own right.

Sources: London County Council Minutes, 5 December 1899, 25 January 1900, 17 May 1900 and 22 July 1902; The Engineer, 18 July 1913, p. 64.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 493495
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'The Engineer' in 18 July, (1913), 64

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.