Title & Author:

The Palace of Westminster : surveyed on the eve of the conflagration, 1834.

Publication:

London : London Topographical Society, 2011.

Description:

7 maps : color ; 50 x 70 cm or smaller, each folded to 25 x 18 cm + 1 booklet (vi, 37 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm)

Series:

London Topographical Society publication ; no. 171

Notes:
Issued in portfolio; title from portfolio.
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: Plans of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Hall and other adjoining public buildings to identify more particularly the House of Commons and its offices. [London] : Thomas Chawner and Henry Rhodes, 1834.
All maps reduced to approx. 55% of original size; scales given are for original maps.
Accompanied by booklet: The Palace of Westminster : surveyed on the eve of the conflagration, 1834 / M.H. Port.
Booklet Includes bibliographical references.
Maps: No. 1. General ground plan of Westminster Hall, The Houses of Lords and Commons and other public buildings situate between New Palace Yard on the north and Parliament Place on the south (50 x 70 cm.) -- No. 2. Ground story offices of the House of Commons together with adjoining portions of the House of Lords and of other public buildings (50 x 58 cm.) -- No. 3. Principal story of the House of Commons and appurtenant offices, also of the House of Lords and portions of its offices, together with adjoining portions of other public buildings (48 x 52 cm.) -- No. 4. Mezzanine story of offices appurtenant to the House of Commons (above the principal story) (43 x 28 cm.) -- No. 5. Two pair story of the House of Commons buildings including adjoining portions of those of the House of Lords and of other public buildings ( 44 x 48 cm.) -- No. 6. Attic story of the House of Commons buildings including adjoining portions of those of the House of Lords and of other public buildings (47 x 52 cm.) -- No. 7. Section from west to east at the red line drawn upon the several plans nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, extending from St. Margaret's Street to the Embankment of the Speaker's Garden next the River Thames shewing the different stories of the House of Commons buildings, the ordinary height of the river at spring tides, and the height of an extrarodinary high tide on the 29th January 1834.

Summary:

Floor plans and elevation map of the Palace of Westminster, surveyed two months before it was destroyed in a fire, Oct. 16, 1834.

ISBN:

9780902087583 (paperback)
0902087584 (paperback)

Subject:

Westminster Palace (London, England)
Westminster Palace (Londres, Angleterre)
Palaces England Designs and plans.
Palais Angleterre Dessins et plans.
Palaces.
England.

Form/genre:

Floor plans.
Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Chawner, Thomas, 1774-1851, surveyor.
Rhodes, Henry, 1779-1846, surveyor.
Port, M. H. (Michael Harry)
London Topographical Society.
National Archives (Great Britain). Manuscript. Work 20/29.
Plans of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Hall and other adjoining public buildings to identify more particularly the House of Commons and its offices.
Publication (London Topographical Society) ; no. 171.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274291
Call No.: BIB 208042
Status: Available