Crap Towns / Tower Hamlets / Heritage at risk
What's falling down in Tower Hamlets?
29 places in Tower Hamlets are on England's Heritage at Risk register (2025), the 8th most of the 470 English towns with one. They are 14 buildings and structures, 9 places of worship, 1 archaeological site and 5 conservation areas.
| Place | Kind |
|---|---|
| 19, Princelet Street, Spitalfields | Building or structure |
| 2 bollards (between statue of Gladstone and St Mary's churchyard entrance), Bow Road, Bromley-By-Bow | Building or structure |
| 2, Wilkes Street, E1 | Building or structure |
| Braithwaite Viaduct, Bishopsgate Goods Yard, Wheler Street / Brick Lane | Building or structure |
| Cattle and Horse Drinking Trough (on Pavement in Front of Drinking Fountain), Commercial Street E1 | Building or structure |
| Drinking fountain (on pavement outside 31-74 Mile End Road), Mile End Road, Stepney | Building or structure |
| Former Bromley Hall School, Bromley Hall Road, London | Building or structure |
| Former Caird & Rayner Ltd Warehouse, 777-783, Commercial Road | Building or structure |
| Gentlemen's public convenience, Bow Road, Bromley-By-Bow | Building or structure |
| One Lamp Standard in front of the Star of the East Public House, Commercial Road | Building or structure |
| St Clements Hospital, Bow Road, Bow | Building or structure |
| St Pauls Mission Room and Infant Nursery, Wellclose Square | Building or structure |
| The former London Chest Hospital, Bonner Road, Bethnal Green E2 | Building or structure |
| Tomb of Joseph Westwood, Southern Grove, Tower Hamlets Cemetery | Building or structure |
| Calvary Charismatic Baptist Church (former Trinity Methodist Church), including attached hall and church rooms, East India Dock Road, Poplar | Place of worship |
| Church of St George in the East, Cannon Street Road, Stepney | Place of worship |
| Church of St John on Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green | Place of worship |
| Church of St Mary Stratford Bow, Bow Road, Poplar | Place of worship |
| Church of St Matthias, Woodstock Terrace, E14 | Place of worship |
| New Testament Church of God (former Holy Trinity), Morgan Street, Bethnal Green | Place of worship |
| St Anne's Limehouse Parish Church, Commercial Road, Stepney | Place of worship |
| St Paul's Church, Burdett Road, Stepney | Place of worship |
| St Peter's Church, St Peter's Close, Bethnal Green | Place of worship |
| Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, Steward Street | Archaeological site |
| London Hospital, Stepney | Conservation area |
| St Anne's Church | Conservation area |
| Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow | Conservation area |
| Wentworth Street, Bethnal Green | Conservation area |
| Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate | Conservation area |
| Town | Distance | Places on the register |
|---|---|---|
| Hackney | 4.5 km | 35 |
| Southwark | 5.4 km | 31 |
| Tower Hamlets | – | 29 |
| Islington | 6.4 km | 26 |
| Westminster | 8.7 km | 20 |
| Newham | 5.2 km | 19 |
| Lambeth | 9.0 km | 18 |
| Greenwich | 7.8 km | 17 |
| Lewisham | 7.6 km | 14 |
| Waltham Forest | 8.8 km | 14 |
| City of London | 4.0 km | 2 |