The Baronial Halls, and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England; Vol. 2 of 2Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter)
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The Baronial Halls, and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England; Vol. 2 of 2
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter)
Historic buildings -- England
The Church contains Monuments to Sir Adam Newton, the founder of the
Mansion, and his Lady, with a Latin inscription written by himself; of
Sir William Langhorne and his wife Grace, daughter of John, Earl of
Rutland, and relict of Viscount Armagh; Brigadier Michael Richards,
Surveyor-general of Ordnance to George the First; James Craggs, Esq.,
Postmaster-general, 1721;[46] John Turnpenny, Esq., “who by industry
acquired, by economy improved, and with equity dispensed, a considerable
fortune among his surviving friends”; Sir John Lambert Middleton, Bart.;
Edward Falkingham, Esq., Comptroller of the Navy, 1757; and of the
father and grandfather and other members of the family of the present
baronet. A bust by Chantrey, with an inscription, is also placed here
over the remains of the amiable and excellent Right Hon. Spencer
Perceval, who fell by the hand of an assassin, when Prime Minister of
the country, in 1812. He married Jane, second daughter of Sir T. Spencer
Wilson. The lamented Edward Drummond, also the victim of assassination,
having been mistaken by the murderer for Sir R. Peel, to whom he was
private secretary, is buried in a vault in the churchyard. He was
brother of the present rector.
Few mansions of its date--although that date is no more remote than the
beginning of the seventeenth century--have retained, with less injury,
the peculiar characteristics of the age of James the First. The present
estimable possessor is fortunately anxious to preserve it in its purity;
the necessary repairs have been conducted with judgment and taste; and,
as an example of the architecture of the period, it may be regarded with
exceeding pleasure--a pleasure enhanced by its vicinity to the
Metropolis.
[Illustration:
J. D. Harding, Delᵗ. on Stone by W. Walton. M. & N. Hanhart, Lithogʳˢ.
COBHAM HALL, KENT.]
COBHAM HALL,
KENT.
[Illustration: T]HE COUNTY OF KENT holds foremost rank among the Shires
of England; not alone because of its picturesque beauty, its great
fertility, the full and important page it occupies in British history,
the abundance and richness of its antiquities, the peculiarities of its
laws, the primitive character of its customs, or its ecclesiastical
pre-eminence; but, chiefly, because it is regarded as our great Island
bulwark--our “Vanguard of liberty,”--
“A soil that doth advance
A haughty brow against the coast of France.”
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