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Latitude: 51.4889 / 51°29'20"N
Longitude: -0.111 / 0°6'39"W
OS Eastings: 531245
OS Northings: 178355
OS Grid: TQ312783
Mapcode National: GBR MN.7F
Mapcode Global: VHGR0.1T5Z
Plus Code: 9C3XFVQQ+HH
Entry Name: Gentlemens Underground Lavatory and Above Ground Structures: Ventilation Shaft and Railings and 4 Bollards and Cattle Trough
Listing Date: 4 October 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1389445
English Heritage Legacy ID: 488104
Also known as: Artslav - Kennington Cross
Gentlemens underground lavatory and above ground structures: ventilation shaft and railings and 4 bollards and cattle trough
ID on this website: 101389445
Location: Vauxhall, Lambeth, London, SE11
County: London
District: Lambeth
Electoral Ward/Division: Prince's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lambeth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: North Lambeth
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Arts venue
963/0/10116 KENNINGTON CROSS
04-OCT-01 Gentlemen's underground lavatory and a
bove ground structures: ventilation sh
aft, railings, 4 bollards and cattle t
rough
GV II
Gentlemen's public conveniences together with railings, ventilation shaft, four bollards and cattle trough. Circa 1900, built as a result of the 1891 Public Health/London Act by the local authority with fittings by Finch and Co. of Lambeth but horse trough by the Metropolitan Drinking Trough Association may be of c1880. Underground features include original white tiled walls, 10 urinal stalls with white porcelain bases and black marble modesty screens with ceramic roundels inscribed "B Finch and Co Limited, Sanitary Engineers, Lambeth SE", painted wooden cubicles, multi-coloured mosaic floor, attendant's kiosk with wooden panelling and high level cast iron water tank, each of the three glass panels having a generous bevelled edge. At the head of the steps are ornamental cast iron railings with spear railings with scroll design and octagonal corner piers with moulded bases and caps. The ventilation shaft is about 20 feet high of cast iron with circular shaft surmounted by crown-shaped moulding and a panelled square plinth inscribed "B Finch and Co Ltd Lambeth." Adjoining the railings is a rectangular stone cattle drinking trough inscribed "METROPOLITAN DRINKING FOUNTAIN & CATTLE TROUGH ASSOCIATION" on a lower dog trough with two curbing stones.
[Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner "The Buildings of England London 2: south. P368."]
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