Abbey Mills Pumping Station

Abbey Mills Pumping Station is a Victorian sewage pumping station located in the Stratford area of the London Borough of Newham in east London. It was built between 1865 and 1868 to designs by Joseph Bazalgette and Edmund Cooper as part of the Metropolitan Board of Works' ambitious scheme to create London's sewer system. The building is elaborately designed in a Byzantine-Moorish style with ornate ironwork and decorative exterior, earning it the nickname the Cathedral of Sewage. It is a Grade II* listed building and remains in use as part of Thames Water's infrastructure.