Devonshire-Exeter-1744 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18290

Map Date:

1744

Repository reference:

Devon RO 4388Z/Z1

Historic county:

Devonshire

Town name:

Exeter

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SX921924

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SX 9392

Map title:

(1) with city arms, towards upper left: 'To the Right Worshipfull ye Mayor, Aldermen & Common Council of the City of Exeter, This Plan of the said City is humbly Dedicated, by their most Obedient Servant, John Rocque, 1744'; (2) towards bottom right: 'Plan de la Ville et faubourgs D'EXETER, tres Exactement Leve & dessinne par I Rocque'.

Comments on map:

The views of notable buildings, &c, with dedication, &c, occupy about half the paper. Scales of quarter mile, feet, yard, perches and chains.

Scale:

1:2376

Map-maker:

R. White [eng], John Rocque [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

119.5 x 76.0

Number of parts:

1

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised: Buildings outside city wall shown more sensitively than those inside.

Water transport infrastructure:

quays

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative, customs

Penal:

jails/reformatories

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls

Welfare and charitable:

almshouses, hospitals

Recreation and sports venues:

sports grounds

Woodland:

shown, orchards

Public/administrative boundaries:

areas named (no boundaries shown): Wards described: no boundaries shown.

Known copies of map:

BLML K.11.68.2.TAB, BOL Gough Maps Devonshire 6, Devon RO 4388Z/Z1, PM B/EXE/1744/ROC [1744]; BLML 2133 (7), Devon & Exeter Institution (2 copies), Devon RO 3140Z/Z1, West Country Studies Library PM B/EXE/1744/ROC [reduced facsimile by James G. Commin, Exeter, 1911]; CUL Maps 19.G.121 [reduced photo, c.1984].

Industry:

lime/cement, textiles, misc: Fulling Mills, Water Engine, extensive pictorial tenters; all rather similar to Benjamin Donn.

Gardens:

shown

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Nine views of notable buildings, &c, (City and County Hospital noted as now completed between 'A' and 'B'), including one of Trews Weir with apparently nude bathers, one of whom is apparently in the act of changing.

Borders:

decorative

Symbolic elements:

Usual putti about both titles: those in dedicatory title include one with a pole with a snake twisting round it, one struggling under a roll of plans, one with a trident pointing towards the river; in scale-title one is looking at a map of Great Britain and northern Ireland, one is using dividers, and one is looking at or writing in a book; at top of scale-title is a scene with clothed adult surveyors, two chaining and one apparently with a theodolite.

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Ships in river towards bottom of map.

Arms and heraldry:

ecclesiastical, livery companies, municipal: [City arms in dedication-title; 13 arms of city trade companies at north, east, south and west points in border; Diocesean arms at bottom of dedicatory title].

Dedicee of map:

Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of Exeter.

Ordnance Survey's

1875-6

1:500

1:2500