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In Memory of a Marquess
Continuing our heraldic tour of the Bute Museum in the Royal Burgh of Rothesay, we found this nice heraldic display of the full achievement of arms of John Crichton-Stuart, the 5th Marquess of...
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In Memory of a Duke
Going up the social ladder in our heraldic tour of the Bute Museum in Rothesay, we ran across this little heraldic gem:It appears very much to me like a carved decoration from the stern of a large boat...
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A Home That Is Chock Full o' Heraldry
The next stop on our heraldic tour of the Isle of Bute was Mount Stuart, the home of the Marquesses of Bute, a lovely place in which it is pretty much impossible to even turn around without seeing...
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Well, It's Not _All_ Heraldry
Okay, I have to admit, that despite all of the heraldry that can be seen at Mount Stuart (a lot of which I'll be sharing in upcoming posts), not every appropriate surface was covered with coats of arms...
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A Little Heraldic Something for the Parlor
Going inside Mount Stuart is a heraldry enthusiast's dream; you can hardly turn around without seeing a coat of arms done in one fashion or another.Say, for example, on a tapestry or two.These two...
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Speaking of Heraldic Accompaniments for the Home
And you thought your kegerator was a great addition to your house.To borrow a line from the movie Crocodile Dundee: "That isn't a keg. This is a keg."This is the Mount Stuart answer for when you have...
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Now _This_ Is an Armorial Family Tree
I'm sure that many of you have seen one or more of the many variations of a family tree that include the coats of arms of the people in it. (If you haven't, there's an example of one at...
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Speaking of Genealogical Displays of Heraldry
Though not quite as involved as the heraldic family tree ceiling in our last post, one of the staircases in Mount Stuart has some very impressive stained glass windows which describe some of the...
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Family History in a Couple of Armorial Paintings
In my last post, you may have noticed a distinctive coat of arms at the top of one of the stained glass windows: Gules crusilly or a saltire argent. (That coat can also be found adorning the chapel at...
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Another Armorial Painting
Continuing our review of some of the heraldry in Mount Stuart, we came across this armorial gem.The identification of the subject is made pretty easy, as in addition to the coat of arms above his right...
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An Heraldic Chapel Ceiling
Many of the larger houses in Great Britain (and other countries, too) have private chapels attached to them. The chapel at Mount Stuart has one of the prettiest ceilings that I have ever seen.Of...
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More Heraldic Display in the Chapel
But the ceiling of the chapel at Mount Stuart (reviewed in my last post) isn't the only heraldic display there. Around the edge of the the gallery at the base of the "dome" of the chapel were a number...
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Now _This_ Is an Heraldic Ceiling!
In another of the rooms at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute, there was this very nice (and heraldic!) ceiling, the central portion of which was this:I am assuming that this is actually someone's birth...
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An Update on an Unidentified Coat of Arms in St. Cuthbert's Church, Dalmeny
In my post of October 5, 2017 (https://blog.appletonstudios.com/2017/10/stained-glass-heraldry.html), there was a coat of arms in one of the three windows that was not identified, but was possibly...
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Now _This_ Is an Heraldic Ceiling, Part 2
The ceiling in the room which had as its central feature the astrological chart and Stuart coat of arms shown in my last post continued the heraldic family tree theme over the rest of the room. In a...
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A Child's Room Done Heraldically
Another room at Mount Stuart was decorated for a child, but it, too, had plenty of heraldry.On one wall was this massive edifice, the ultimate "toy castle" to play with.At the peak of the each of the...
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Two Pieces of Understated Heraldry at Mount Stuart
Just to prove to you that not every display of heraldry at Mount Stuart has to be over the top and "in your face," on the exterior of the house on one of the upper floors, we ran across a couple of...
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Heraldry In The Courtroom
And no, I don't mean anything like, for example, the Royal Arms which appear in the courtrooms of Great Britain, or Canada.No, this was a court case in Poland, where the frontman for the rock band...
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A verdict has finally been reached in a court case in Belgium where master woodcarver Patrick Damiaens had sued store chain Zara Home for breach of copyright, when the chain began selling candles with...
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An Armorial Achievement to Sleep By
Or, at least, under.Another one of the bedrooms at Mount Stuart had a large bed surmounted by this amazing display of marital heraldry.The most notable part of this display is, of course, the marital...
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