Norfolk-Norwich-1558 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20570

Map Date:

1558

Repository reference:

BL G.6583

Historic county:

Norfolk

Town name:

Norwich

Map type:

General Purpose

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

TG233087

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

TG 2208

Map title:

'Nordovicum, Angliae civitas anno 1558.I.B.F.'

Comments on map:

Raymond Frostick's no.1. In William Cuningham, The Cosmographical Glasse, London: Ioan Daii, 1559, facing folio 8. Poised between birds eye view and true plan. [Reference on back.] Scale is about 1:5000* north-south, 1:10,000* east-west.

Scale:

1:7500*

Map-maker:

I.D. [John Day] [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

41.0 x 30.2

Number of parts:

1

Buildings:

'ordinary' buildings pictorial, public buildings emphasised

Mills:

windmills, (pictorial)

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial)

Penal:

misc: Reference on back includes 'The place where men are customablie burnt'.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town gates, town walls, (pictorial): Named gates.

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Woodland:

shown

Known copies of map:

Frostick's no.1. BL K.59.i.28, Bodley Douce C Subt.112, CUL Sy,4.55.4 [F.1.2]; BOL G.A. Norfolk 6b, CUL Lib.2.89.39, S696.a.88.51 [in Kirkpatrick, 1889]; CUL bb.77.55.1, Norwich Library 12.26(QO) [20th cent copies], RGS Eng & Wales S.179; BOL 2017 c.44 [1968: facsmile edn of Cosmographical Glasse, pub Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]; CUL maps.bb.77.97.2 [1975: Norwich]; BOL G24.B1.128 [1988: in Rural Images, pb Chicago: Newberry Library];

Decorative cartouches:

symbolic/non-realistic: Clouds surround arms, to left and right of title, which is on a banner, with Mercury above.

Relief:

'molehills'

Symbolic elements:

Mercury: above title.

Crosses:

cross, (pictorial)

Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:

Surveyors with plane table, bottom centre; animals in fields; pictorial hedges, etc.

Arms and heraldry:

royal arms, municipal

Ordnance Survey's

1880-3

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560