Seacroft Hospital Water Tower - Seacroft, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 48.390 W 001° 28.178
30U E 600775 N 5963079
This water tower was erected in 1904 to supply two hospitals.
Waymark Code: WM1C1X4
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/19/2025
Views: 1
The brick built tower was erected in the grounds of Seacroft hospital but also supplied water to Killingbeck hospital on the other side of York Road.
Seacroft hospital was originally erected in 1893 as a temporary smallpox hospital and was then extended in 1898 to cater for scarlet fever.
In 1904 a permanent hospital for scarlet fever; diptheria and eutric fever was erected on the site of Seacroft hospital and at the same time Killingbeck hospital erected and the water tower was used for both hospitals. At the same time the tower with a capacity of 40,000 gallons was erected. It also has a clock on the outside of the tower.
Killingbeck hospital closed in 1997 when it merged with Leeds General Infirmary in new premises in Leeds City Centre and Killingbeck was then demolished.
The tower is no longer functional and many of the older parts of the building at Seacroft hospital have been sold for the building of a housing estate.
The tower itself is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building and so is to be left standing but no longer functions as a water tower and the clock also no longer works.
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