Cheshire-Chester-1650 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19650

Map Date:

? 1650

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top. 9.3

Historic county:

Cheshire

Town name:

Chester

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SJ405665

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SJ 4166

Map title:

'Chester Cestria'.

Comments on map:

Attribution to Beer and dating to 1690 [rather than to Matthias Merian and dating to 1650] are via D. Smith, 'The enduring image of early British townscapes', Cartographic Journal 28 (1991), 163-175 (esp. p. 169), and Raymond Frostrick, The printed plans of Norwich (2002), p.19.

Scale:

1:15,840*

Map-maker:

? Johann Christoph Beer [author].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

13.2 x 16.7

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.9.3*, BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.II, part II; BL 577.f.2, CUL F169.c.1.1 [1690: J.C.Beer: 13 x 17 cm, in Das neu-geharnischte Gross-Britannien].

Industry:

textiles: Based on what seem to be pictorial tenters to south-west of town.

Gardens:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Bottom right: lounging figure, drawing or writing something, talking to gesticulating figure in cloak and hat, with snuffling dog.

Relief:

'molehills'

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Cows and corn-cutting in fields to north of city.

Arms and heraldry:

municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1871-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1898

1:2500

1:10,560