Water Tower at York Stairs (1780)
Not far from the former York Stairs, now buried under the Embankment near Charing Cross, stood a wooden tower, erected in 1695 for supplying the Strand and its neighbourhood with water from the Thames.
In a print published in 1780, the wooden tower is shown. It was an octangular structure about seventy feet high, with small round loopholes as windows to light the interior.
