ABSTRACT
85Battersea Power Station has been called a ‘Cathedral of Electricity’. Very few buildings have been able to appeal to the popular consciousness as much the huge four-chimneyed structure on the opposite bank of the River Thames from fashionable Pimlico. Its style has been described as ‘jazz modern’, but that is not particularly illuminating. There are very few buildings — perhaps only Tower Bridge and the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool can equal it-that have acquired such a memorable public image, while being so ignored by the architectural establishment.
