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[1] Survey drawing taken by Thomas Dove, 1788
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Reference number
SM 73/3/3
Purpose
[1] Survey drawing taken by Thomas Dove, 1788
Aspect
Site plan of The Castle Hill showing The Castle, The Shire House, The Keepers House, Pump, Stairs to Privy, The Road 185 feet and The Bridge 149 feet long and (Soane, feint pencil, some pen) plan and section of proposals to the east of the castle keep
Scale
scale bar of 1/16 inch to one foot
Inscribed
as above, North, South, East, West (west at the top of the sheet), (Soane, pencil, mostly illegible, some words crossed out, relating to securing the bridge and the road) A, B, (marks bridge and road) A. The --- Gate --------- 8 feet high / is & which are to be ----- fixed at ---- / this place as the solid -------- / --- can not be ------- the / Bridge. The Gate is to be -- / --- ------ Ledger ---- braced / B. ------ ------ 8 feet high (remainder illegible) and some (Soane, pencil) dimensions given
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, yellow and green washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (475 x 674)
Hand
Thomas Dean, surveyor
Watermark
J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W
Notes
This survey drawing was made by Thomas Dove, of whom not much is presently known. Norfolk County Record Office has two drawings signed by him and dated 1786 for a new bridewell (prison, house of correction) and a further drawing for alterations and additions to the existing bridewell after a fire (NCR case 1be/100-102). These last were carried out by Dove; the bridewell is now the Bridewell Museum in Bridewell Alley, Norwich.
Soane's office "Journal No1' has an entry for 13 May 1789: 'surveyed Castle'. Presumably he took with him Dove's survey drawings, no doubt originally made for the Norwich City Corporation.
The site plan shows that the area of the 'Castle Hill' was roughly 256 feet by 256 feet and that access was via a bridge to the south and a road to the north-east. Of the three buildings shown, the castle keep had been used as a prison since about 1220 though when purpose-built interventions were made is uncertain. However by 1747-9 Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769) was repairing the keep/prison as well as building the Shire Hall.
Soane's office "Journal No1' has an entry for 13 May 1789: 'surveyed Castle'. Presumably he took with him Dove's survey drawings, no doubt originally made for the Norwich City Corporation.
The site plan shows that the area of the 'Castle Hill' was roughly 256 feet by 256 feet and that access was via a bridge to the south and a road to the north-east. Of the three buildings shown, the castle keep had been used as a prison since about 1220 though when purpose-built interventions were made is uncertain. However by 1747-9 Matthew Brettingham (1699-1769) was repairing the keep/prison as well as building the Shire Hall.
Literature
N. Pevsner and B. Wilson, Norfolk 1: Norwich and north-east, 2nd ed.,1997, pp.256-60
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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