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
pen
ink
Wash
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 525mm
Width: 360mm
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
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
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.