Reference Number | DE/4/18/6/1 |
Title | Map of Tunbridge Wells, showing the situation of the New Church and contiguous proposed improvements on the Calverley Estate, as designed by Decimus Burton [for John William Ward] |
Description | Coloured. Illustration of the New Church in the bottom-right corner. New Church in centre of the map. Calverley Estate to the north-east. Calverley Mill and Calverley Lodge to the east. Frant Parish to the south.
Architect: Decimus Burton (1800–1881)
Surveyor: S. Rhodes
Scale: 5 chains to 1" [330 feet to 1" [1:3960]
Note: John William Ward 'having purchased the Calverley and other considerable property adjoining it... determined upon erecting a number of edifices suitable to the reception of genteel families...' (see John Colbran, 'New Guide for Tunbridge Wells' (Tunbridge Wells, 1840), p.54). |
Date | 1828 |
Related Material | [see Dana Arnold, ‘Burton, Decimus (1800–1881)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (online edn); 'Guide of Tunbridge Wells' (J. Clifford, 1830), p.50-53; John Colbran (James Phippen, ed.), 'New Guide for Tunbridge Wells' (Tunbridge Wells, 1840), p.53-54] |
Physical Description | [57cm x 65cm] |
AccessStatus | Open |
Level | Item |