Seven Arches Aqueduct And Conduit Facade

SE23NE 714-1/6/984 09/06/86

LEEDS SCOTLAND WOOD, Meanwood Park Seven Arches Aqueduct and conduit facade (Formerly Listed as: SCOTLAND WOOD, Meanwood Park Seven Arches Aqueduct and cast-iron culvert)

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Aqueduct and water conduit over Adel Beck. Aqueduct c1840. By George Leather, engineer; built by Abraham and Mylne. For the Leeds Water Works Company. Rock-faced coursed stone and ashlar. 7 arches supported on attenuated rectangular piers with stepped voussoirs and decking level moulded string course. 3 courses above to closed conduit. C20 safety railings at each end. Water conduit: dated 1866; coursed squared gritstone curbs and revetment walls to stream bed, cast-iron plate approx 10m downstream from the aqueduct. The plate approx 2.5m long and 0.75m deep, with mouldings top and bottom and 3 fielded-panels framed by raised mouldings, the centre enclosing raised lettering: 'LEEDS CORPORATION/ WATER WORKS/ 1866'. Eccup reservoir was built in 1840 to supply clean water (the first alternative to the River Aire) to the centre of Leeds after the cholera epidemics of the 1830s. Improvements to the supplies included the installation of a new mains in 1866, still in use.

Listing NGR: SE2860739444