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St Pancras Waterpoint

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St Pancras Waterpoint

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Location: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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T1pkp

January 29, 2021

Built in 1872 to supply water to the rapidly growing steam railway network at St Pancras, the Waterpoint is a Grade II listed building. But it is in this place only since 2001. It was threatened with demolition when the Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminus was built. So it was dismantled and put up here, about 700m from its original location.

The waterpoint can be visited, check out stpancrascc.co.uk/?q=node/4

Bumble-Bee

December 7, 2023

The St Pancras Waterpoint was designed by the office of Sir George Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for the magnificent Midland Grand Hotel that forms the frontispiece of St Pancras railway station, and his influence can clearly be seen in the Waterpoint’s ornate brickwork and elaborate detailing. Containing a vast 2,400 cubic foot capacity cast iron water tank, the Waterpoint was designed to supply water to steam trains visiting St Pancras station.

In 1997, the proposed development of the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link terminus at St Pancras meant that the Waterpoint was threatened with demolition. However, as the building was of such architectural and engineering importance, English Heritage intervened and we prepared a detailed relocation proposal in partnership with the developers for the Cross-Channel High Speed link, London Continental Railways (LCR). Although this proposal received grant offers from both English Heritage and the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) the project failed to proceed when the second stage of the link was deferred with no firm date for its implementation.

(londonhistoricbuildings.org.uk/index.php/st-pancras-waterpoint-camden/)

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1. Camden Stables Market – Regent's Canal Towpath loop from Chalk Farm

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