IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4458
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: ROBINSON, Samuel (fl 1741)
Date(s): 1741
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.30 linear metres.
Name of creator(s): Robinson | Samuel | fl 1741 | surveyor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Samuel Robinson, surveyor, was active circa 1741 and based at Cockhill, Shadwell. The plan in this collection relating to Saint Dunstan and All Saints church, Stepney states that he 'surveys land and buildings, draws out plans and maps of estates, and carefully calculates all sorts of measurements' (LMA/4458/01/001).
For a history of Stratford Abbey, West Ham, see 'West Ham: Stratford Abbey', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 112-114 (available online).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This collection contains two plans drawn by Samuel Robinson relating to Saint Dunstan and All Saints' Church, Stepney and West Ham Abbey, West Ham. Both give detailed depictions and descriptions of the buildings and landscape features in their immediate area.
The West Ham Abbey plan (LMA/4458/01/002) gives very detailed views and notes of garden furniture and planting schemes in the adjacent Spring Gardens. For example the plan refers to: 'a square piece fenc'd with reeds wherein cucumbers are nurished' and 'Beds of tulips, pinks and carnations, French marigolds and sweet williams and other flowers. There are several plots of cabbages and colewerts, carrots and parsnips among the trees'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are arranged as follows: Plans LMA/4456/01.
Conditions governing access:
These records are open to public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to closure periods.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records purchased in August 2000.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For parish records relating to Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney see P93/DUN.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.