Drawings COBHAM (Kent): Church of St Mary Magdalene

Object number

LDSAL2020.22.2

Artist/Designer/Maker

Fisher, Thomas - Artist

Production date

19th century

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 525mm
Width: 360mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Grave Stone of Johanna de Cobham in the Chancel of Cobham Church Kent.

Inscription content

on a chevron or
3 lions rampant

Two coats quarterly
1st a fesse argent
between 6 cross fleurrys
or 2nd azure 2 Bars
nebuleee or impaling
on a chevron or
3 Lions rampant

Argent 7 Mascles
3, 3, & 1 a Mullet in
chief for difference
impaling on a
chevron or 3 Lions
rampant

Inscription content

On a chevron or 3
Lions rampant.
impaling or 3 roundels
a file of 3 points in
chief.

Two coats quarterly
1st on a chevron or
3 Lions rampant
2nd Azure 2 Bars
nebulee.

On a chevron argent
a Lion rampant crowned
or impaling on a
chevron argent 3 Lions
rampant

Inscription content

Scale. two Inches & a quarter to a Foot.

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. 220.

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. 107. Illustration, fig. 20, p. 107.

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), pp. 86-7.