Volume: Launceston Castle, Launceston, Cornwall

Description

163 drawings dating from between 1900 and 1998. The earliest sheets are a blueprint from 1900 and an Ordnance Survey map from the 1906 edition.

There are several drawings from the 1950s, including deed plans from 1951, a key plan from 1956 and drawings relating to motte consolidation from 1959 and 1960.

Drawings from 1960 and 1961 show a new retaining wall, a new door, and shrub planting proposals. There are also designs for new steps from 1962. From 1969 there are drawings relating to a new bridge over the drawbridge pit.

Sheets produced in the early 1970s show the north and south gatehouses, the custodians cottage and its proposed sales area, and the drawbridge pit. There are two topographic survey sheets from 1973.

There are electrical drawings from 1985 and proposals for road resurfacing from 1988. From the early and mid-1990s, there are survey drawings, sheets from a photogrammetric survey, and proposals for new safety railings. The most recent sheets are from a survey of the north gatehouse made in 1997 and 1998.

Content

This is part of the Series: EHC01/022 English Heritage Plans and Measured Drawings; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

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