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Cobham in Kent County England History and GeographyCOBHAM, a parish in the hundred of SHAMWELL, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 5 miles (W.) from Rochester, containing 646 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage not in charge, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Rochester, endowed with £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Darnley. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, has parapets and an embattled tower, which, with the north porch and a fine basin, or water drain, under a richly canopied niche, are in the later style of English architecture; but the chancel and some other portions of the fabric are of early date: it contains some very ancient monuments and brasses to the noble families of Cobham and Brooke. In 1362, John, Lord Cobham, made it collegiate, erecting the college contiguous to the church-yard, and amply endowing it for five chaplains, which number he afterwards increased to eleven; at the suppression it was valued at £128 1.2., and was confirmed by the crown to George, Lord Cobham, whose executors, in 1598, built upon its site the present college, and endowed it with the former possessions, for the maintenance of twenty poor persons; it is a neat quadrangular building of stone, comprising part of the ancient structure, and containing a spacious hall, and an apartment with a garden for each inmate: in the 39th of Elizabeth the incorporated wardens of Rochester bridge were declared to be perpetual presidents of ';the New College,' in whose successors the government is solely vested. The village stands upon an eminence, and is supplied with water from works constructed for the purpose by the family of Cobham: it had formerly a weekly market on Monday, and a fair on St. Mary Magdalene's day, granted to John, Lord Cobham, in the 41st of Edward III.; the fair is held annually on the 2nd of August, but the market has been long disused. The course of the Roman Watling-street is visible in the parish; and on a hill in Cobham Park is a splendid mausoleum in the Doric style, erected by the Earl of Darnley, at an expense of £15,000. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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