Ventilating Pipe To Former Public Conveniences is a Grade II listed building in the Lewisham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1995. Ventilating pipe. 1 related planning application.
Ventilating Pipe To Former Public Conveniences
- WRENN ID
- sharp-cupola-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lewisham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1995
- Type
- Ventilating pipe
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added:
TQ 3576 779-/6/10024
NEW CROSS ROAD (south-west side) Ventilating pipe to former public conveniences
GV II
Ventilating pipe. Installed as part of public conveniences of 1897 by George Jennings, sanitary engineer, for Greenwich District Board of Works on behalf of the Vestry of St Paul's, Deptford. Central ventilating column of Egyptian pattern by Macfarlane's Castings of Glasgow and modelled on a design by Alexander'Greek'Thomson for six lampstandards outside his Egyptian Halls, these were erected without authority and were demolished in 1871. This is one of only two known examples of the design, the other is in Clifton Rise, New Cross, but is not on its original site. The ventilating pipe served as an extract for foul gases from the lavatories below, which could be burnt offby the gas mantle at the top. The cast-iron ventilation shaft alone is listed for the special interest of its design. Its Egyptian pattern is most unusual, and it is special in its derivation from a model by a leading Scottish architect, Alexander Thomson. The ventilation columns in New Cross are the only works associated with Thomson in England. Source: Gavin Stamp, 'Greek T in London', in The Alexander Thomson Society Newsletter, No. 8, October 1993.
Listing NGR: TQ3577576861
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