Sussex-Chichester-1595
CBTM:
18345
Map Date:
1595
Repository reference:
[Private collection]
Historic county:
Sussex
Town name:
Chichester
Map type:
General Purpose
Extent of cover:
whole built-up area
National grid reference:
SU860048
Exeter coverage diagram reference:
SU 8607
Comments on map:
Inset on county map: 'bird's eye' type, cf Speed.
Scale:
1:7500*
Map-maker:
John Norden [author].
Production mode:
engraved
Dimensions [in centimetres]:
140 x 100
Number of parts:
1
Buildings:
noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised
Places of Worship:
Anglican/established only
Defence and military:
town gates, town walls
Markets and exchanges:
cross, (pictorial): [Pictorial cross is not very like the real one].
Woodland:
orchards
Known copies of map:
RGS Eng & Wales D.74 [only known original]; BOL C17 a.1, RGS Maps.bb.36.93.1 [RGS, 1932]; West Sussex RO PM 24 [copy]; BOL (E) C17:58 (90) [1970: RGS & Harry Margary]; [1972: included in David J. Butler, The town plans of Chichester 1595-1898, Chichester: West Sussex CC, 1972].
Antiquities:
Former monastic premises.
Decorative cartouches:
abstract decorative
Miscellaneous pictorial and decorative:
A few figures in streets and in fields outside.
Arms and heraldry:
municipal
Ordnance Survey's
1874
1:500
1:2500
1:10,560
1896
1:2500
1:10,560
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