Der Water Tower, eine Zisterne aus den frühen 1700er Jahren, die auf dem Friedhof einer Pfarrkirche halb begraben war, verteilte sauberes Wasser über Holzrohre zu Häusern im oberen Teil von Rye, East Sussex, England, Großbritannien. Gekrönt wird er von diesem ovalen Turm, einem schönen Beispiel georgischer Ziegelsteine, die vor Ort als „Tee-Caddy“ bezeichnet werden.
4179 x 2781 px | 35,4 x 23,5 cm | 13,9 x 9,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. Mai 2011
Ort:
Rye, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom.
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Rye, East Sussex, England, UK: this elegant oval turret, a prime example of high quality Georgian brickwork, surmounts the Rye Water Tower, a below-ground cistern or reservoir built during the early-18th century reign of King George II in the churchyard of the town’s Parish Church of Saint Mary. The red brick tower, built between 1733 and 1735, was sited in the north-east corner of the churchyard in Church Square because it was the highest point in the town. Water was piped into Rye to a conduit house and then pumped uphill, at first by horse power and then by a wind pump. The brick-vaulted cistern, also oval, could hold about 20, 000 Imperial gallons (circa 91, 000 litres) of water, which was supplied to properties in the upper part of the town through wooden pipes. The arrangement pre-dated most 19th century Victorian public water systems by at least 100 years. The distinctive oval turret, known locally as “the tea-caddy”, has rectangular openings on its east and west sides closed by wooden shutters with central oval openings. The east side of the cistern features a glass-fronted water measure or gauge and at the north-east corner, a lead pipe runs down to a timber-cased hand pump dated 1826. The Rye Water Tower is protected as a Grade II* Listed Building, a classification given to particularly important structures of special interest, which deserve every effort to preserve them. When it was listed, it was described as “ … a finely crafted vernacular structure, representing a stage of evolution midway between a medieval conduit head and a modern storage reservoir.” D0866.B0363
