page_title: Cobham College
hierarchical_section_title: Cobham College
caption_attribution_description: The Alms houses (formerly Priests' College), Cobham, Kent: floor plans. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1858, after F.T. Dollman. Iconographic Collections Keywords: John Richard Jobbins; Francis Thomas Dollman
context_page_description: Cobham College in the village of Cobham in Kent, England, was a chantry employing a college of five priests founded by in 1362 by John Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham, of nearby Cobham Hall, lord of the manor of Cobham, for the purpose of praying for the speedy passage of his soul through Purgatory and into Heaven.
  The priests were housed in the surviving building known today as "Cobham College", now a grade I listed building. It is situated to the immediate south of the parish church of St Mary Magdalene, to the chancel of which it was originally joined by an open processional passageway. In addition to living quarters for the 5 priests, the building contained a communal great hall with central open hearth.
context_section_description: Cobham College in the village of Cobham in Kent, England, was a chantry employing a college of five priests founded by in 1362 by John Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham (d. 1408), of nearby Cobham Hall, lord of the manor of Cobham, for the purpose of praying for the speedy passage of his soul (and those of named others) through Purgatory and into Heaven.
  The priests were housed in the surviving building known today as "Cobham College", now a grade I listed building. It is situated to the immediate south of the parish church of St Mary Magdalene, to the chancel of which it was originally joined by an open processional passageway. In addition to living quarters for the 5 priests, the building contained a communal great hall with central open hearth.
caption: "The Alms houses (formerly Priests' College), Cobham, Kent: floor plans". Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1858, after F.T. Dollman
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