Goad London 256—SE1—Elephant & Castle—Theatre—Tabernacle 1889 (c1971) old map
£140
SKU: P-9-001251
Charles Goad Insurance Plan of London, sheet 256 [Elephant and Castle: New Kent Road, Newington Butts, Walworth Road and Metropolitan Tabernacle — uncoloured outline]
Goad's uncoloured outline fire insurance plan of London, sheet 256, covers Elephant and Castle (SE1) on a base plan headed June 1889. It shows Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle as built, before the fire of 1898, the bombing of 1941 and the smaller rebuilding of 1957. At the time of the plan, Pastor's College and the Elephant and Castle Theatre, in Frank Matcham's rebuilding of 1879, stood beside Elephant and Castle station, Newington National School, the Drapers' Almshouses, Rabbits & Sons and a sperm-oil works. The college later became Spurgeon's College in South Norwood and closed in 2025, while the theatre later became the Coronet cinema, then a live-music venue from 2003 to 2018. Justin Timberlake, Mumford & Sons and Tom Jones, who appeared in March 2014, played there long after the theatrical use shown on this outline; the building was demolished in 2021. The outline records footprints with less occupancy and risk detail than the coloured plans, and it preserves Taylors Depository, Draper Street, Black Prince Court and industrial plots. A coloured edition reissued in March 1965 shows them replaced by the Elephant and Castle shopping centre, the School of Printing, roundabouts and pedestrian subways. Goad's plans were kept to assess property and fire risk, and they took pasted overlays recording new uses, layouts, demolition and rebuilding, though none here is dated. A key plan for this area acquired with the group records corrections to March 1971. Other streets on the sheet include Newington Butts, St George's Road, New Kent Road, Walworth Road, Pastor Street, St Gabriel Street, Brook Street and Station Road.
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Size 63 x 53 cm | 24.5 x 21.0 inches
Date Published: 1889 (c1971)
Type: Vintage uncoloured fire-insurance outline plan with later overpasted outline amendments
Author: Goad, Charles & Co
Publication: Charles Goad Fire Insurance Maps
Condition: Good |
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