Little Britain, City of London, 1793

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Some work in the City of London (11)
  - Little Britain, City of London, 1793 (2). Survey drawings and letter with key to plan

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Reference number

SM D4/6/2

Purpose

Little Britain, City of London, 1793

Aspect

[1] Survey plan of an area NE of St Bartholomew's Hospital fronting Little Britain on two sides, Aldersgate Street and St Bartholomew Close

Scale

1/24 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, labelled Cox^s Court, Cross Keys Court, Trinity Court, Great Montague Court, Little Montague Court, Westmorland Buildings, Albion^s B^ds, Garden (twice), plots numbered 1-33 and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1793

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown ink, gamboge, sepia, violet and pink washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (685 x 480)

Hand

John Manning (surveyor)

Watermark

J Whatman and fleur-de-lis in crowned cartouche and W below

Notes

Colour wash outlines may indicate the length of leases: for example, the small regular properties of Cross Keys Court are marked in pink and those facing St Bartholomew's Close are shown in yellow. Manning has noted of the owners of two plots Cannot Learn / their Names. The list of Ground Landlords given by Manning includes Christ Hospital with two plots on the east side from Trinity Court to Aldersgate Street. A map of 1684 in the Guildhall Library (Prints & Maps Department, from the collection of Christ's Hospital, Record: 21482) inscribed 'Planographic or ground plat [plan], of severall messuages or tenements & yards & back-sides in Little Britain, and in a court there called or know by the name of Pilkington Place in the parish of St Botolph Aldersgate ...' gives to Christ's Hospital the ownership of an area that corresponds to the southern part of Manning's survey, so that a hundred years later this had been reduced. In fact, Pilkington Place was bought by St Bartholomew's Hospital in the 17th century. Other landlords include Merchant Taylors Company, Rev^dM^r Edwards - Glebe, Aldersgate Parish and Was Chandlers C^o.

Level

Drawing

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