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An Older Heraldic Memorial
One of the things that I really enjoy about visiting churches in Great Britain is the sheer number of heraldic memorials, their sometimes widely varying ages, and the many forms that they...
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Merry Christmas, Everyone!
Here's a very last minute heraldic gift for the family pet, just in case you may have left him or her out of your shopping plans.And some good advice for making it through the holidays; it also is, I...
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A Newer Heraldic Memorial
It's not just old heraldic monuments in these churches in Scotland; sometimes, you may run across a much more recent one.For example:This heraldic plaque was erected in St. Michael's Church,...
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This Monument Shouldn't Be A Mystery
This man memorialized in the next monument in St. Michael's Church, Linlithgow, Scotland, shouldn't be a mystery, or hard to find, and yet ....I mean, it is inscribed with his name and date of...
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An Untinctured Heraldic Ceiling Boss
Not every ceiling boss in St. Michael's Church in Linlithgow, Scotland, is as colorful as some of those already posted in this blog. Indeed, some of them look like they are showing their age.This one,...
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Well, That Was Disconcerting
I mean, really, it should have been fairly easy! And yet ....Still in St. Michael's Church in Linlithgow, Scotland, there was lovely, large brass candelabra.And it had on its base two engraved coats of...
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The Opposite of the Last Post
So, having failed miserably at identifying two coats of arms on a large candelabra in St. Michael's Church in Linlithgow, Scotland, this time we exit the church and head a little way up the hill to the...
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A Little Heraldic Something for the Courtyard
Passing through the gate with the four Royal coats of arms, we pass into the interior of Linlithgow Palace, and find ourselves in the courtyard with a very elaborate fountain. The fountain was built in...
View ArticleA Big Heraldry Project Completed
I have posted the following announcement on the Facebook pages of several of the heraldry societies to which I belong, but in case you are reading this here and have not seen it on Facebook, here it...
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Some Quasi-Heraldic Symbols of Royalty
Many of the windows on one wall of the courtyard of Linlithgow Palace have pediments displaying the symbols of the Stewart royal family.There is King James VI of Scotland, with the crown, sceptre, and...
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A Final Coat of Arms Near Linlithgow Palace
Walking back down the street from Linlithgow Palace to return to our tour bus, I ran across (and thus simply had to photograph) the following coat of arms:Carved with a date of 1675 and surmounted by a...
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Royal and Burgh Arms at Rothesay Castle
The final day of our heraldic tour of western and central Scotland took us to the Isle of Bute, where our first stop was the (remains of) Rothesay Castle.As you can see from the picture above, it isn't...
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Ancient and New Royal Heraldry at Rothesay Castle
In addition to the explanatory signs at Rothesay Castle with their display of heraldry, there were also a couple of Royal coats of arms which had been incorporated into the fabric of the building...
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I try to generally keep away from advertising myself too much on this blog, but periodically I feel it incumbent on me to mention to those who may not know it that I actually do sell some new and...
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Burgh Arms
In my post of January 25, I promised that I would share more depictions of the arms of the Royal Burgh of Rothesay that we saw in the Bute Museum (right across the street from Rothesay Castle). Here...
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More Royal Burgh Heraldry
Incorporating elements from the arms of the Royal Burgh of Rothesay, we ran across the following three items, two inside and one outside of the Bute Museum.First was a carved heraldic plaque from HMS...
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A Naval Badge at the Bute Museum
The Bute Museum, just behind and across the street from Rothesay Castle, is a great little place to visit, with a very eclectic collection, including (as we have already shared) a fair bit of...
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Ships' Badges at the Bute Museum
Further adorning one of the walls at the Bute Museum in Rothesay were a number of Royal Navy ships' badges:HMS Adamant (A164) was a submarine tender launched in 1940 and broken up in 1970. In October...
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I'd Live Here!
Well, I'd live here if I could afford it! It is, alas, priced more than a little outside my max budget.Still, if it were close, it would be well worth it.What is "it," you ask? Well, "it" is the Reeves...
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What Is This Ship's Badge Doing Here?
There was one final ship's badge that I saw at the Bute Museum, but though I keep asking myself the question in the title of this post, I have not yet come up with an answer.The reason for the inquiry...
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