Middlesex-Westminster: St James-1836 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

18176

Map Date:

1836

Repository reference:

Westminster Archives D.1835a

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St James

Map type:

Rating

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ294806

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3279

Map title:

'...admeasurements taken in the years 1831 and 1832, revised and corrected to the year 1836, and dedicated and presented to the Vestry, and Govenors and Directors of the Poor'.

Comments on map:

In leather-bound volume with fancy title. Paper is watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill. Bottom right is C. Mayhew Fecit. 14 Argyll Street. Starts with 1:2376 parish map, showing churches, pubs and public and parochial buildings. Also two sheets of street index, and two titles to the halves north and south of Piccadilly. 25 sheets at 1:480: the last of these (number 28) is of St James Chapel, attached to park or burial ground, evidently detached, as it is east of Hampstead Road and adjoins St Pancras Female Charity School.

Scale:

1:480

Map-maker:

Charles Mayhew [author].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

65 x 45 [x 32].

Number of parts:

32

Legends:

Buildings: Reference sheet explains letter codes: a to g for 1 to 7 stories, dots for 1 or 2 storeys in roof and mezzanine, underlined a for 'story on bressummers' [these seem to appear in stables], v for vaults, s for 'shed buildings'.

Colouring:

Buildings, water, boundaries, land-use, other: 'The plans are coloured different tints to denote the separate tenures'.

Road names:

generally: Including yards and mews.

Building names:

clergy residences, important buildings only, house numbers: Burlington House

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised, archways, bay windows, steps to buildings, walls: Ground-level arcading: impressive in The Quadrant.

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively

Public buildings:

central government

Welfare and charitable:

workhouses

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

bazaars: [The Pantheon Bazaar].

Woodland:

shown

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

Westminster Archives D.1835a.

Industry:

food/drink

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc

Parkland:

private parks and ornamental ground

Service and professional:

insurance offices

Waterbodies:

shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Symbolic elements:

Arms of Parliament at top of title.

Arms and heraldry:

misc: Parliament.

Dedicee of map:

Vestry and Govenors & Directors of the Poor.

Inns, hospitality & refreshment:

shown: [By colour, on 1:2376 general map only].

Stated measuerments:

other: Frontages to street, and lengths of dividing walls, in feet and inches.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

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