Cobbett Chest Tomb And Area Railings Immediately North Of Church Of St Andrew

The Cobbett chest tomb, dating from around 1835, is located immediately north of the Church of St Andrew in Farnham. This stone tomb, which is partly rendered, is a large rectangular structure featuring a moulded base and lid, with the lid having a weathered top. Each end of the tomb has a double-recessed, 4-centred rusticated arch panel that contains a patee fitched cross and the date. The sides are adorned with recessed inscription plaques and flanking corner piers that have double recessed rusticated round-headed niches containing upturned torches. The chest is set on a large ashlar plinth and is surrounded by cast-iron area railings with an intersecting pattern, cresting, and polygonal corner standards. The tomb commemorates William Cobbett, an essayist, politician, and agriculturalist, who was born in 1762 in Farnham and died at Normandy Farm, near Guildford, in 1835.