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Abbey Mills Pumping Station

1868 in LondonBuildings and structures in the London Borough of NewhamCharles Henry Driver buildingsFormer pumping stationsGrade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Newham
Grade II* listed industrial buildingsGrade II listed buildings in the London Borough of NewhamGrade II listed industrial buildingsHistory of the London Borough of NewhamInfrastructure completed in 1868London water infrastructureMill MeadsSewage pumping stationsStructures on the Heritage at Risk registerStructures on the Heritage at Risk register in LondonThames Water
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Abbey Mills Pumping Station is a sewage pumping station in Mill Meads, East London, operated by Thames Water. The pumping station lifts sewage from the London sewerage system into the Northern Outfall Sewer and the Lee Tunnel, which both run to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. The original pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, was built between 1865 and 1868, housing eight beam engines by Rothwell & Co. of Bolton. Two engines on each arm of a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. Another of Bazalgette's designs, Crossness Pumping Station, is located south of the River Thames at Crossness, at the end of the Southern Outfall Sewer. A modern sewage pumping station (Station F) was completed in 1997 about 200 metres (660 ft) south of the original station.

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