right|thumb|250px|the original abbey mills pumping station (a station)  the original abbey mills pumping station, in abbey lane, london e15, is a sewage pumping station, designed by engineer joseph bazalgette, edmund cooper, and architect charles driver. it was built between 1865 and 1868. it was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate byzantine style, described as the cathedral of sewage. another of bazalgette's designs, crossness pumping station, is located south of the river thames at crossness, at the end of the southern outfall sewer. ==history== the pumping station was built at the site of an earlier watermill owned by the local abbey, from which it gained its name ==purpose== right|thumb|upright|an entrance to a station thumb|upright|inside c station pump house the pumps raised the sewage in the london sewerage system between the two low level sewers and the northern outfall sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in london away from the centre of the city. two moorish styled chimneys â unused since steam power had been replaced by electric motors in 1933 â were demolished in 1941, as it was feared that a bomb strike from german bombs might topple them on to the pumping station. the building still houses electric pumps â to be used in reserve for the new facility next door. the main building is grade ii* listed and there are many grade ii listed ancillary buildings, including the stumps of the demolished chimneys. ==the modern pumping station== right|thumb|the new abbey mills pumping station (f station) the modern pumping station (f station) was designed by architects allies and morrison. the old building (a station) has electrical pumps for use as a standby; the modern station is one of the three principal london pumping stations dealing with foul water. one of world's largest installation of drum screens to treat sewage was constructed as part of the thames tideway scheme. the site is managed and operated by [
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