The York Buildings Waterworks' Water Tower was a water tower on the north bank of the River Thames and a dominant feature of the 18th century London skyline.
The water tower was a wooden structure, 70 feet (21 m) high[1] and with an octagonal cross-section.
It was erected in the late 17th century on a site at the end of Villiers Street, by the York Watergate, now part of the Victoria Embankment Gardens.
The Survey of London includes a drawing (plate 31[2] in volume 18[3]) showing the building.
The prominent position and height of the water tower meant it appeared in many paintings and drawings of London's north bank at the time.