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County Durham: Holy Island (now in Northumberland). Six sheets of plans and sections...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/574
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This record is about the County Durham: Holy Island (now in Northumberland). Six sheets of plans and sections... dating from [1742]-[c.1813] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MR 1/574
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1742]-[c.1813]
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Description (What the record is about)
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County Durham: Holy Island (now in Northumberland). Six sheets of plans and sections of Lindisfarne Castle. (1-4) Three copies of a ground plan of the castle, showing named rooms and the road leading up the hill: (1-2) two large fragments of a single, damaged copy, perished in several places; (3-4) two complete copies. (5) Sheet bearing two sections, along the lines A-B and C-D marked on items (2-4). (6) Sheet bearing four sections, along the lines A-B, C-D, E-F and G-H marked on items (2-4); damaged at the right-hand edge. Reference note to item (2) on repairs required to be made to the castle. All items to scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. Items (3-4) and (6) bear the date 1742, which probably refers to the sheets from which they were copied; items (1-2) and (5) [?the original drawings] are undated. Item (4) copied by J Nightingale, [c1813]; items (3) and (6) are probably of about the same date. Items (2-6) endorsed, in an early nineteenth century hand, with the name of Captain Phillips; this is probably Thomas Phillips, Engineer, who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Dimensions: (1) 23 cm x 104 cm; (2) 52 cm x 104 cm; (3-4) each 52.5 cm x 74.5 cm; (5-6) each 47 cm x 202 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1334
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:120
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860 (London, 1967), entry 3371
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559601/
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MR 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series...
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