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An Englishman's house is his… water tower? |
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Bracebridge Heath reservoir was constructed with two pumping engines installed at Elkesley, Nottinghamshire. A 22-mile long main was laid from Elksley to Lincoln, where the Westgate Water Tower was built. The scheme was completed and operational by 1911. The Mayor of Lincoln, Clement H. Newsum, formally opened it on Tuesday 3rd October 1911.
The architect, Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942), designed the tower to resemble a medieval keep so as to give a sense of continuity with the city's castle and cathedral. The west-facing wall is parallel with the Cathedral west-facing wall. Simple in design, the tower is square with inlay panels either side with fleur-de-lays, the symbol of the Virgin Mary - Lincoln's patron saint.
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Blomfield was also influenced in his design by what he felt was an unacceptable face of modernism: "a revolt against the past… in blind ignorance of the accumulated experience of man". He also designed the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium (1926) and Talbot Building at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1910-15).
Facts about the tower- Building started in 1907, completed in 1911.
- Contractors: Henson & Son, Wellingborough.
- Materials: circular inner: brick - square outer: local brown Darley Dale gritstone
- Dimensions: external: 17.08m (56ft) square, internal: 14.95m (49ft) diam at ground level, height to top of parapet wall: 35.8m (117ft), height to top water mark: 33.55m (110ft)
- Circular brick wall supporting water tank: 1.31m (4ft 3in)
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