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

SU 8346 NE FARNHAM CHURCH YARD 5/401 Cobbett Chest Tomb and area railings immediately North of Church of St Andrew GV II Chest tomb. Circa 1835. Stone, partly rendered. Large rectangular chest with moulded base and lid, the lid with weathered top. Each end has double-recessed 4-centred rusticated arch panel containing patee fitched cross and date. The sides have recessed inscription plaques and flanking corner piers with double recessed rusticated round-headed niche containing upturned torch. The chest stands on large ashlar plinth with cast-iron area railings of intersecting pattern with cresting and polygonal corner standards. William Cobbett, essayist, politician and agriculturalist, was born 1762 in Farnham, he was the son of a labourer, and died at Normandy Farm, near Guildford in 1835.

Listing NGR: SU8384946695