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

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.