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Old and New Versions of the Same Arms
It's always nice to find an organization which has a coat of arms to not only find them using it, but even "updating" it so as to not seem quite so "stuck in the past" as can sometimes happen when they...
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Three Different Renditions of a Coat of Arms
We found these three different renditions of the same coat of arms in different places during our travels about the City of Glasgow:These are all depictions of the arms of the County of Lanark, or...
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Heraldry on The Corinthian Club Exterior, Glasgow
The Corinthian Club in Glasgow, just around the corner from the Trades Hall which was the site of the XXXII International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, was originally built in 1884 as...
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Non-Heraldry on the Streets of Glasgow
Continuing our heraldic tour of Glasgow, Scotland (and, not wanting to bore you with a surfeit, there's a lot that I'm not including in these posts), we come once again to one of my frustrations as a...
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Some Royal Heraldry (Way Up High) in the Glasgow Cathedral
The Cathedral in Glasgow is a wealth of heraldry: stained glass, wood, stone, brass, and more. In the next several posts, I'll be sharing some of these heraldic treasures with you, but I thought I'd...
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An Heraldic Memorial to a Fallen Officer
We spent literally hours in the Cathedral in Glasgow, there was so much to see (and so much of it heraldic!). I doubt that I am going to be able to give you what I would term a "complete tour" of the...
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Another Heraldic Memorial to a Military Man
Another, and in some ways similar, heraldic monument to a military man is this one, erected to the memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Cadogan, of the 71st Glasgow Regiment, who fell at the age of 33 in...
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No, Really, There _Is_ a Coat of Arms on This Monument
It's not quite as obvious on this memorial in the Glasgow Cathedral (to another military man) that it displays his coat of arms, but really, it is there!I mean, sure, you can see the helm, mantling,...
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Heraldic Stained Glass Windows Galore
Before I start sharing some of the individual coats of arms that abound in the stained glass in the Glasgow Cathedral, I thought I'd give you an overview of the abundance of heraldic stained glass that...
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A Couple of Small Brass Memorials
Not all of the armorial memorials are as large, impressive, or expensive as some that I've shared with you previously. Here are a couple of comparatively small, but still armorial, memorial brasses...
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Still More Armorial Brass
I know, I know! I promised you heraldic stained glass, and here I am, still telling you about heraldic brass in Glasgow Cathedral. But, really, I thought I was ready to move on to the windows, but I...
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Is There Such a Thing As "Skyscape Heraldry"?
Over this past weekend the regional airport nearby hosted this year's "Wings Over Dallas" airshow. Because it was close, and because I've long had a love of World War II aircraft, and since the folks...
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Small Brass Memorial to a Campbell
Okay, this is the next-to-last brass that I am going to inflict upon you before getting to some of the armorial stained glass in Glasgow Cathedral, I promise!This particular brass, not terribly large,...
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An Impressive Brass Memorial With Lots of Heraldry
For this final armorial memorial brass in Glasgow Cathedral, we have this one which has what I think would have to be termed an "exuberant display of heraldry." (And not just the heraldry, but the...
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A Pair of Armorial Stained Glass Windows
There is a really nice pair of windows in the Glasgow Cathedral; not a matched set, exactly, but a complementary pair.The upper parts of the windows are filled with depictions of two saints: St. Andrew...
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Heraldic Windows of Another Campbell Husband and Wife
Continuing our tour of the heraldic stained glass in the Glasgow Cathedral, I ran across another married couple, in this case, Alexander Campbell of Hallyards and his wife, Barbara.The first window...
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Armorial Windows to Three Dennistouns
Not as closely related as the husband and wife in the last post, here we have armorial stained glass memorials to Robert Dennistoun, to James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, and to Alexander Dennistoun of...
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Thank Goodness for Genealogical Data
For this next armorial window in the Glasgow Cathedral, I had to do a bit of genealogical research.The window is dedicated to Ninian Hill of Lambhill, but a brief search on-line came up with three (or...
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Another Stained Glass Armorial Window
I have been frustratingly unable to find much information about the person who is memorialized in this next stained glass armorial window in the Glasgow Cathedral.The text at the bottom of the window...
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Three Generations of Douglases
Well, okay, it's really four generations, but probably not all linked in direct order, oldest to youngest.There is a set of three armorial stained glass windows in the Glasgow Cathedral which...
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