Old Map of London in 1746 by John Rocque, Sheet E1 - Old Street, Finsbury, Moorgate, Barbican, St Luke's, Liverpool Street
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North of the old City wall, where Moor Fields once lay open and marshy before draining and building over the site, sheet E1 of John Rocque's 1746 survey of London picks up the ground that gave Moorgate its name. Rocque, working with the engraver John Pine, surveyed London, Westminster and Southwark between 1741 and 1745 in twenty-four sheets, and this one covers the district immediately north of the medieval city, taking in Finsbury, Moorgate, Old Street and the edge of Clerkenwell toward Barbican and Liverpool Street.
The sheet records Bethlem Royal Hospital, rebuilt in 1676 on the southern edge of Moorfields and known informally as Bedlam, standing prominently before its later move to St George's Fields. Close by, Rocque marks Tindal's Burying Ground, the Nonconformist cemetery better known today as Bunhill Fields, already the resting place of dissenting preachers and tradesmen decades before Blake, Bunyan and Defoe were buried there. St Luke's parish church on Old Street, consecrated in 1733 to a design associated with Nicholas Hawksmoor and John James, appears with its distinctive obelisk spire, and the broad drilling ground of the Honourable Artillery Company is laid out to the east, a private open space that survives in outline to this day.
Between the hospital grounds, the burial fields and the Artillery Company's parade ground, this sheet shows a part of London that was neither fully City nor fully suburb in 1746, and makes a considered gift for anyone with Moorgate or Finsbury roots, or a collector completing Rocque's full survey. It is reproduced unframed at high resolution and offered in our full range of sizes.
