Sussex-Chichester-1724 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

20182

Map Date:

1724

Repository reference:

BLML K.Top.42.3-e

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

Map title:

'The inchnography of Chichester'.

Comments on map:

Inset on Budgen's 1:84,480 survey of Sussex [engraved on six plates]. Scale seems intended as 1 inch to 30 perches [1:5940]. [Market cross omitted.]

Scale:

1:5940

Map-maker:

Rich. Budgen [sv], H. Lintot, Cross Keys agst. St Dunstans, Fleet St, London [pb].

Production mode:

engraved

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

12.4 x 12.7

Road names:

partly

Buildings:

noticeably generalised, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

Anglican/established only, (pictorial): Pictorial cathedral, pictogram churches.

Defence and military:

castles/forts/batteries, town walls, (pictorial)

Woodland:

orchards

Known copies of map:

BLML K.Top.42.3.a-f, 42.3.8.Tab.End, BLML Maps 5395(4), CUL Atlas.1.72.2, West Sussex RO Petworth House Archives 3521 [1724]; BLML Maps 5395(8), CUL Maps.R.a.33, West Sussex RO PM 47 [1779].

Antiquities:

Friery [sic].

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

'North prospect of Chichester', below that of Lewes (cf Exeter 20183), and similarly much larger than the town map (30.3 x 13.2 cm).

Miscellaneous buildings and structures:

Palace, Tower hall [pictorial].

Arms and heraldry:

municipal: [On the prospect rather than the map].

Dedicee of map:

[Main map:] Spencer Compton [Speaker of the House of Commons, MP for Sussex, etc].

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560