Hertfordshire-St Albans-1721 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22701

Map Date:

12.5.1721

Repository reference:

Ashmolean Museum, Sutherland Collection, C.III, 555

Historic county:

Hertfordshire

Town name:

St Albans

Map type:

uncertain

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TL144071

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TL 1506

Map title:

'St Albani Opidum locus Matyrii proto martyris Britanavii'.

Comments on map:

Birds-eye view effect: not much text. Verulamium portion covered with pencil-squaring.

Scale:

1:6000

Map-maker:

N. Hawksmoor Architect [dr].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

54.7 x 43.6

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative: Ink and grey wash.

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Known copies of map:

BOL Ash [Sutherland coll] C.III, part VIII.

Antiquities:

Verulamium with walls and towers.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative: Including drape and altar-slab, both without text, and scale on horizontal scroll.

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Top left: banner with 'S.P.Q.R.'

Towers:

tower: [Pictorial].

Ordnance Survey's

1877-8

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1897

1:2500

1:10,560