Collection COL/SVD/PL - SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT: PLANS

47.9 linear metres

COL/SVD/PL 1736-1980 Collection 47.9 linear metres Corporation of London

The City Surveyor is responsible for the construction and management of various City non-residential properties, including those properties belonging to Bridge House estates and City Lands estates.

The Surveyor's Approval Plans are a series of folders containing plans, and sometimes supporting correspondence and specifications of works associated with the Corporation's role as landlord to the City Lands and Bridge House Estates. The plans mostly relate to alterations or new building on the Bridge House and City Lands Estates which were submitted to the Bridge House and City Lands Committees respectively for approval and very occasionally to property adjoining the Corporation's estate over which the Corporation enjoyed certain rights such as the right to light. The plans were drawn by the leasee's own architects and usually submitted with a covering letter to the relevant committee as part of their application for permission to redevelop or alter Corporation property. The application was studied by the City Architect who made a recommendation in a report to the committee to accept or reject the application. The report can usually be found in the relevant file of committee papers and the subsequent decision in the appropriate committee minutes. Occasionally the City Architect would recommend conditions and modifications to be imposed on the leasee's proposal and such conditions can sometimes found in the committee papers and in the committee files after 1958. Most of the plans submitted were for relatively minor alterations such as new room partitions, however many plans related to completely new buildings or major reconstructions of existing buildings. Most of the plans are signed and dated by the leasee's architects. Not all the proposed new building and alterations contained in the plans were carried out and sometimes this was annotated on the folder or on the plans themselves as well other facts such as the subsequent demolition or sale of the site.

Corporation of London Records Office.

Plans from the Surveyor's Department, Corporation of London, 1736-1980, including plans, maps, diagrams, photographs, sections and elevations of offices, stables, warehouses, public houses and wine bars, vaults and basements, shops, workshops, banks, dwelling houses, police stations, schools, markets, restaurants, wharves, docks, railway stations and railway lines, drains and conduits, churches and churchyards, pavilions, memorials, streets, almshouses, cemeteries, courts, hospitals, asylums, parks and hotels, as well as the Guildhall complex and Mansion House. These include properties belonging to Bridge House Estates, the Conduit Mead estate and City Lands Estates. Also maps of parish and ward boundaries.

Plans of bridges, 1745-1941, including London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge, St Paul's Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, with soundings of the Thames, 1774-1879.

In sections according to catalogue.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London
English

Fit

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For more plans see general plans (COL/PL), the papers of the Public Health Department (COL/PHD), the papers of the Planning Department (COL/PLD), and the papers of the Technical Services Department (COL/TSD).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. February 2009 Surveyor's Department , Corporation of London Dance , George the younger , 1741-1825 , architect Jones , Sir , Horace , 1819-1887 , Knight , architect Barry , Sir , John Wolfe Wolfe- , 1836-1918 , Knight , civil engineer Urban development People Surveyors People by occupation Building surveyors Artists Architects Visual materials Plans Building plans Construction engineering Building operations Building construction City Surveyor , Corporation of London Bridge House Estates , Corporation of London x City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee City Lands Committee , Corporation of London x City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee Conduit Mead Estate , Corporation of London City of London London England UK Western Europe Hertfordshire Europe

Corporation of London Records Office.

Plans from the Surveyor's Department, Corporation of London, 1736-1980, including plans, maps, diagrams, photographs, sections and elevations of offices, stables, warehouses, public houses and wine bars, vaults and basements, shops, workshops, banks, dwelling houses, police stations, schools, markets, restaurants, wharves, docks, railway stations and railway lines, drains and conduits, churches and churchyards, pavilions, memorials, streets, almshouses, cemeteries, courts, hospitals, asylums, parks and hotels, as well as the Guildhall complex and Mansion House. These include properties belonging to Bridge House Estates, the Conduit Mead estate and City Lands Estates. Also maps of parish and ward boundaries.

Plans of bridges, 1745-1941, including London Bridge, Tower Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Southwark Bridge, St Paul's Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge, with soundings of the Thames, 1774-1879.

In sections according to catalogue.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London

• English

• Latin

English

For more plans see general plans (COL/PL), the papers of the Public Health Department (COL/PHD), the papers of the Planning Department (COL/PLD), and the papers of the Technical Services Department (COL/TSD).

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English