A brick built entrance to an underground water tunnel system in Greenwich Park, London.

Previous title, replaced May 2025: A ruined gateway, with weeds growing out of the top of the piers, labelled in a blind central window: "Greenwich Hospital". Pen drawing with wash.

1 drawing : pen and ink, with grey wash, on wove paper ; image 17.1 x 12.8 cm

Greenwich ; Hospital

The conduit is likely to be one on the western or Croom's Hill side of Greenwich Park, near the surviving 18th- century Standard Reservoir conduit house. All but one, at the base of One Tree Hill, were demolished before 1900. The stone slab inscribed 'GREENWICH HOSPITAL' may be the one reused as the base for the western side of the Chesterfield Gate in the south-west corner of the park.

The location was previously identified as possibly being: "the southern gateway to Trinity Hospital, Greenwich. At present (1996) there is a similar doorway, perhaps rebuilt in the twentieth century, with a lintel stone incribed with the date 1792"

The Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, holds a drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of a similar conduit head in Greenwich Park.

Wellcome Collection 29824i