Drawings COBHAM (Kent): Church of St Mary Magdalene

Object number

LDSAL2020.22.75

Artist/Designer/Maker

Fisher, Thomas - Artist

Production date

19th century

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 530mm
Width: 350mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Grave Stone of Jone de Kobeham in the chancel of Cobham Church Kent.

Inscription content

Scale 2 Inches 4/10 to a Foot

Inscription content

See Registrum Roffense page 764
Weever's funeral Monts folio page 328

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. 218.

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. 83. Illustration, fig. 9, p. 83.

Reference (free text)

John Thorpe, Registrum Roffense: Or, a Collection of Antient [sic] Records, Charters, and Instruments of Divers Kinds, Necessary for Illustrating the Ecclesiastical History and Antiquities of the Diocese and Cathedral Church of Rochester (London, 1769), p. 764.

Reference (free text)

John Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine [sic], Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, with the Dissolved Monasteries therein Contained, Their Founders, and What Eminent Persons Have Been in the Same Interred (London: Thomas Harper, 1631), p. 328.

Reference (free text)

Richard Gough, Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, Applied to Illustrate the History of Families, Manners, Habits, and Arts, at the Different Periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century 2 vols. (London: J Nichols, 1786-1796), 1: part 2, p. 106. Illustration, pl. XXXIX, opp. p. 106.

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. 82.