Middlesex-Westminster: St Georges Hanover Square-1725

CBTM:

19610

Map Date:

1725

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3495 (95)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St Georges Hanover Square

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ295795

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

[Original, top centre:] 'St Georges Hanover Square'. [Bottom centre:] 'Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square. Copy of the original plan of the parish, dated 1725, in the possession of the vestry, reduced and lithographed by order of the Vestry, July 1st. 1880. J.H. Smith, Vestry Clerk.'

Comments on map:

At bottom of map is long note describing the boundary perambulated on 14 May 1725, and 'A list of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal present inhabitants of the Parish'.

Scale:

1:7200

Map-maker:

John Mackay, Mathematician, St James, Westminster [sv, dr].

Production mode:

lithographed

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

60.7 x 52.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

important buildings only

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, building infill omitted, public buildings emphasised: The more prominent buildings (including almshouses) are shown pictorially.

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Sanitary and utility information:

water works

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, workhouses, misc: Chelsea College, i.e. Chelsea Hospital.

Education and academic:

schools

Woodland:

scattered tree cover, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3495(95), Westminster Archives Map Cabt A.063, Board Room Drawer no.1 Folder no.1, and Box 49 no.2 [all litho 1880 by order of the vestry]; BL S.P.R., Westminster Archives Ashbridge 049.5 [from The Builder, Vol 81, 6:7:1901].

Gardens:

shown

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Landowners and occupiers:

fragmentary owners: [Only a few owners of more open ground].

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Drape round vignette of the church, with angels (?) holding banner over it; more restrained surrounds to dedication, surveyor and decorative surveyors above scale.

Garden and park buildings:

ice houses: [In St James Park].

Dedicee of map:

Rt Hon George, Lord Carpenter, Rt Hon William Stuart, Esq., first churchwardens of St George Hanover Sq., Rev Mr Trebeck, Rector, 'and the rest of the Noblemen and Gentm. of the Vestry'.

Ordnance Survey's

1848-50

1:1056

1:5280

1:10,560

Skeleton survey

1868-70

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560

1893-4

1:1056

1:2500

1:10,560