Crossness Pumping Station

Crossness Pumping Station
Western exterior of the Crossness Pumping Station
Location	Crossness Sewage Treatment Works London, SE2 United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′33″N 0°08′18″E / 51.509142°N 0.138418°E / 51.509142; 0.138418
OS grid reference	TQ4849781080
Built	1859–1865
Architects	Charles Henry Driver and Joseph Bazalgette
Architectural style(s)	Romanesque
Owner	Thames Water
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated	24 June 1970
Reference no.	1064241
Location of Crossness Pumping Station in London Borough of Bexley

The Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station designed by the Metropolitan Board of Works's chief engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry Driver. It is located at Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer and the Ridgeway path in the London Borough of Bexley. Constructed between 1859 and 1865 by William Webster, as part of Bazalgette's redevelopment of the London sewerage system, it features spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, that Nikolaus Pevsner described as "a masterpiece of engineering – a Victorian cathedral of ironwork".

It is adjacent to Erith Marshes, a grazing marsh, the northern part of which is designated as Crossness Nature Reserve. This provides a valuable habitat for creatures ranging from moths to small amphibians and water voles.^[1]