Sussex-Chichester-1780 | Catalogue of British Town Maps

CBTM:

22440

Map Date:

? 1780

Repository reference:

West Sussex RO Add. MS 5556

Historic county:

Sussex

Town name:

Chichester

Map type:

Historical

Extent of cover:

whole built-up area

National grid reference:

SU860048

Exeter coverage diagram reference:

SU 8607

Map title:

'Plan of the city of Chichester the Caercei of the Britons Mantantonis of the Saxons and the Cirrancearer of the Saxons.'

Comments on map:

Dated late 18th century by West Sussex RO. Carefully drawn.

Scale:

1:2376

Production mode:

manuscript

Dimensions [in centimetres]:

48.0 x 35.0

Number of parts:

1

Colouring:

decorative, other: Some coloured banding of walls and roads.

Road names:

generally

Building names:

clergy residences

Buildings:

shown, public buildings emphasised

Places of Worship:

shown comprehensively: Cathedral shown inn plan.

Public buildings:

town hall/administrative

Defence and military:

town walls

Welfare and charitable:

hospitals

Education and academic:

schools

Markets and exchanges:

cross: Indicated in plan: unnamed.

Woodland:

scattered tree cover

Known copies of map:

West Sussex RO PM 3, Add MS 5556.

Antiquities:

Castle and monastic sites; Civil war earthworks.

Decorative cartouches:

abstract decorative

Vignettes, illustrations, etc:

Upper left and right: Roman inscriptions and transcripts.

Tenement boundaries group:

apparently fairly complete

Ordnance Survey's

1874

1:500

1:2500

1:10,560

1896

1:2500

1:10,560