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Drawing [End of the Barn at Preston Hall in Kent. Archaeol. Vol. XIII p. 142]

Object number

LDSAL2026.3.56

Artist/Designer/Maker

Rashleigh, Peter - Artist

Production date

1796

Material

paper
watercolour
pencil
pen
ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

height (Sheet): 238mm
width (Sheet): 313mm
height (Image): 185mm
width (Image): 252mm

Location

Burlington House - Kent L-R

Associated place

Kent

Content description

Drawing of the gable wall of a large barn at Preston Hall, Aylesford, which has an upper opening with stone jambs and an inscribed stone lintel. This is inscribed with two shields and the initials TC (probably for Thomas Colepeper (d.1602).

References

Reference (free text)

Samuel Denne, 'Examination of an inscription on a brn in Kent; the MantleTree of the Parsonage House at Helmdon in Northamptonshire, as described by the Professors Wallis and Ward, revised; and queries and Remarks on the general use of arabic numeral in England' Archaeologia XIII (1807), p. 107-140. Illustration (detail of this drawing), p. 142, Pl XII fig. 5, no.1

Reference (free text)

Edward Hasted, "The history and topographical survey of the county of Kent: containing the antient and present state of it, civil and ecclesiastical / collected from public records, and other the best authorities, both manuscript and printed: and illustrated with maps, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, etc." (1778-1799), vol. II, p. 175
Drawing of the gable wall of a large barn at Preston Hall, Aylesford, which has an upper opening with stone jambs and an inscribed stone lintel. This is inscribed with two shields and the initials TC (probably for Thomas Colepeper (d.1602).