Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694224

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 208 56908 65009

For Prince's Dock (NS 5620 6493 to NS 5684 6503) and subsidiary buildings, see NS56SE 87.00.

Hydraulic Pumping Station, Prince's Dock, built 1894 for the Clyde Navigation Trust to designs by Burnet, Son and Campbell. The pump-house itself is a high, single storey, 6-bay red-brick building, with a plain frontage to the dock, and a decorated front to Mavisbank Road. At the N end, is a slendid accumulator tower, with elaborate corbelling, in the style of an Italian campanile. At the S end, there is the stump of an octagonal chimney in the form of 'Tower of the Winds', with sculptured panels forming a frieze. SDD category B.

J R Hume 1975

This building was used as a bar during the Garden Festival. It is now disused.

(RCAHMS photographic survey 1996).

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO) 25 September 1996.

This building extends over the grid line between OS 1:1250 map sheets NS5665SE and NS5664NE. The former (in an edition of 1951) notes it as El Sub-sta [NAT]; the latter (in an edition of 1962) notes a Chy [NAT] at NS 56903 64976.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 February 2006.