City of London-London: St Edmund the King and Martyr-1788

CBTM:

13879

Map Date:

1788

Repository reference:

GHL La. Par. (Parish Maps) 215/EDM (MS 20,221)

Historic county:

City of London

Town name:

London: St Edmund the King and Martyr

Map type:

Parish

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ329810

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3281

Comments on map:

Only parish boundary, frontages and parish property with its divisions are mapped. Churchwarden named.

Scale:

1:288

Map-maker:

Willm Jupp & Jno. Dugleby Senr [sv], 'Tomkins Script.' [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54 x 64

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative, other: Multi-colour tinting of cartouches; parish property red.

Buildings:

some or all buildings omitted.

Known copies of map:

GHL La. Par. (Parish Maps) 215/EDM (MS 20,221).

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Possibly symbolic: Upper cartouche surmounted by vase, scythe, crown and (?) sun, with ? sword, mace and books (all faded) below; lower (with reference) has female figures with purple loincloths, vase and leaf-chains on top, and ? mace and intertwined snakes below.

Borders:

decorative: Includes dicing, as though latitude and longitude were to be added.

Symbolic elements:

Vases, scythe, crown, sun, sword, mace, books, female figures, intertwined snakes: in cartouches.

Map material:

parchment