Plaque

Hyde Park Conduit House - 1

Erection date: 1870

Inscription

On this spot stood a conduit house which supplied the precincts of Westminster with water till the spring was cut off by drainage in 1861. The building was removed in 1868 & this memorial erected in 1870 to mark the place where it stood.

This plaque, which was on the east face of the plinth (the back in our photo), has 'disappeared' since the photograph was taken. Diamond Geezer also has a photo of it in situ.

Site: Abbey Spring monument (2 memorials)

W2, Hyde Park, to east of Serpentine Bar and Kitchen

The river Westbourne used to run though Hyde Park following the course of what is now the Long Water and the Serpentine and left the Park at what is now Albert Gate. It was culverted and rerouted through the Park sometime in the mid 1800s by which time it was more a sewer than a sparkling stream. So it ran very close to the spring from which Westminster Abbey was supplied with water. We wonder whether the phrase "the spring was cut off by drainage in 1861" indicates that the water supply had become contaminated from the river and so was discontinued.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Hyde Park Conduit House - 1

Subjects commemorated i

Hyde Park Conduit House

A building that housed an ancient spring supplying water to Westminster Abbey...

Read More

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Hyde Park Conduit House - 1

Also at this site i

Hyde Park Conduit House - 2

Hyde Park Conduit House - 2

A supply of water by conduit from this spot was granted to the Abbey of Westm...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

James Selby

James Selby

NW1, Edgware Road, 7

Bertram Mills had died 8 months before the plaque was unveiled. The Winnipeg Tribune of 7 January the following year contains a vivid de...

2 subjects commemorated, 4 creators
Lord Lugard

Lord Lugard

SW7, Rutland Gate, 51

Greater London Council Lord Lugard, 1858-1945, colonial administrator, lived here, 1912-1919.

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
T. A. Greeves

T. A. Greeves

W4, Newton Grove, 12

T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford Park Society, lived here. Bedford Park Society

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Cross Bones Graveyard

Cross Bones Graveyard

SE1, Redcross Way

This graveyard has a website all its own and the colourful crowd-sourced memorials attached to the railings are a splendid commemoration ...

1 subject commemorated
Spa Green

Spa Green

EC1, Lloyd's Row

This plaque has large blank areas which the local artists do their best to decorate.

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial

St Anne's Church Limehouse - WW1 memorial

E14, Three Colt Street, 7

The quotation "Greater love ... his friends." is from the biblical book of John 15.13. But we cannot find any source for the quotation "O...

War dead | WW1
463 subjects commemorated, 1 creator