Drawings COBHAM (Kent): Church of St Mary Magdalene

Object number

LDSAL2020.22.102

Artist/Designer/Maker

Fisher, Thomas - Artist

Production date

19th century

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 530mm
Width: 370mm

Associated place

Cobham (Kent)
Kent
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Grave Stone of Sir Thos. Brooke Lord Cobham in the Chancel of Cobham Church Kent

Inscription content

Scale, 2 Inches & 1/3 to a Foot.

Arms quarterly. 1st on a chevron argent a Lion rampant crowned or 2nd on a chevron or 3 Lions rampant 3rd argent 7 mascles 3, 3, & 1 4th on a fesse between 3 Leopards Heads or an ammulet.

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries', Antiquaries Journal 22 (1942): 242. Thomas Fisher is erroneously referred to as Thomas Foster in this reference.

Reference (free text)

Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles (London: Headly Brothers, 1926), p. 221.

Reference (free text)

Nigel Saul, Death, Art, and Memory in Medieval England: The Cobham Family and Their Monuments, 1300-1500 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 120. Illustration, fig. 22, p. 120.

Reference (free text)

Ralph Griffin and Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses Remaining in the County of Kent in 1922: With Notes of Some Lost Examples (London: Headley Brothers, 1923), p. 88.