Middlesex-Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden-1673 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

19602

Map Date:

1673

Repository reference:

BLML Maps 3495 (130)

Historic county:

Middlesex

Town name:

Westminster: St Paul Covent Garden

Map type:

estate

Extent of cover:

fragmentary

National grid reference:

TQ304809

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TQ 3181

Map title:

'A mapp or description of the parish of St Paul Covent Garden wth part of St Martins in the Fields comprehending the lands and tenemts belonging to the Right Honble William Earle of Bedford, as well as those granted in Fee and Fee-farm [as] those let in lease. Together wth Bedford House and the circuit thereof by John Lacy 1673.' [sic, including contractions.]

Scale:

1:720

Map-maker:

John Lacy [sv].

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

133 x 59

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative, owners: Title, etc, evidently coloured in original: apparently owner/occupier colours.

Road names:

generally

Buildings:

shown

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only

Public/administrative boundaries:

Parish

Known copies of map:

BLML Maps 3495(130) [photo, 1939], London Metropolitan Archives E/BER/CG/E/5/1/1 [? C18 copy].

Leisure and entertainment:

theatres, etc: ['Theatre Royal'].

Landowners and occupiers:

owners shown

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

'Plus que jamais' below royal arms, top left, and ram or stag above; dividers above scale; crown and second 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' over title, top right.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms

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