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Slightly Understated Heraldry at Mount Stuart
If you are going to try to impress people by displaying your arms all over your house, on the walls and ceilings, there may be places where you just don't want everything to be quite so much in...
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Meanwhile, Back on the Ground Floor at Mount Stuart
I know, right? There is just so very much heraldry to be seen at Mount Stuart that we're probably all getting a bit weary. At least, I know I am. You can only spend so much time looking at other...
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Another Pair of Shields Over the Doorway
In my last post, I shared some pictures of a pair of shields over a doorway on the ground floor of Mount Stuart.Today, we're looking at a similar pair of shields, with different arms on them, from a...
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Non-Personal Heraldry Displayed at Mount Stuart
Among the many heraldic stained glass windows to be seen at Mount Stuart was this pair of windows displaying some non-personal heraldry.The window on the left displays a variant of the coat of arms of...
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Two Pieces of Jacobite Heraldry
Tucked away in Mount Stuart we ran across a couple of items decorated with some Jacobite heraldry: the arms of Henry Benedict Thomas Edward Maria Clement Francis Xavier Stuart, the younger son of the...
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A Successful Hunt for a Blazon
I always think that the late J.P. Brooke-Little said it best, in the introduction to his An Heraldic Alphabet:You can study heraldry until you are azure ... in the face but inevitably discover, from...
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Heraldic Controversy in Scotland
A couple of conversation threads on Facebook and a recent news article on the web have brought to my attention the fact that the Craigie Primary School in Perth, Scotland, has run afoul of the office...
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The Waiting Is Over!
Well, all of the discussion and waiting and arguing and hypothesizing is finally over. (Yes, I've pretty much stayed out of the discussion to this point. I knew that it was all in vain until the...
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A Final Post About Mount Stuart
Mount Stuart is a beautiful home on the Isle of Bute, but I have discovered that even just posting about the heraldry in it, as I have been doing these several weeks, can put my brain into the same...
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A Final Post from Our Trip Through Scotland
Following our visit to the Isle of Bute on the final day of our three-day heraldic tour around Glasgow and environs, we stopped for a final dinner in Greenock, Scotland.As the bus pulled up to the...
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It Seems That The Internet Will Just Not Shut Up About This
Okay, this is starting to get pretty ridiculous.As I posted on May 25 (https://blog.appletonstudios.com/2018/05/the-waiting-is-over.html), the coat of arms for the new Duchess of Sussex had been...
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Heraldic Controversy in Scotland: A Follow-Up
In a post on May 24 (https://blog.appletonstudios.com/2018/05/heraldic-controversy-in-scotland.html), I'd discussed an issue between the Craigie Primary School in Perth, Scotland, and the office of the...
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Why Is the Coat of Arms on the High Court in Canberra, Australia, Incorrect?
That's the question asked by ABC Net Australia News about this image:Admittedly, most folks wouldn't notice the issue. Do you?Go ahead, I'll give you a little space to see what you notice.All done? Did...
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Wow! I Hadn't Realized I Had Missed Sharing These.
You know how it is, you are just going along and living your life and getting stuff done and making progress on some of your to-do projects, and then something happens that throws you completely off...
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Some Heraldry in St. Margaret's Chapel, Westminster, London
On the other side of the street behind the Houses of Parliament in London, and standing next to Westminster Abbey, is the (comparatively) little chapel of St. Margaret's.You can often see St....
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A Brass Memorial to a Peer
The second brass memorial to share from St. Margaret's Chapel in Westminster was this one:Sacred to the memory ofthe Right HonourableCharles Shaw-Lefevre P.C. G.C.B. D.C.L. L.L.D.of Heckfield Place in...
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A Monument to a Deceased Son
On one wall inside St. Margaret's Chapel is found a white marble memorial with a tri-colored mosaic border around it, containing a coat of arms and a short poem by American jurist Oliver Wendell...
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A Carved Marble Armorial Memorial
There are, naturally enough, a number of carved stone armorial memorials in St. Margaret's Chapel, Westminster.For example:The inscription reads:Mrs. IUDITH CARYdeparted yeLife ofyeSmall Pox Marchye...
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Another Carved Marble Heraldic Memorial
I have managed to find (and download) a .pdf copy of The History of the Parish Church of Saint Margaret, in Westminster by Rev. Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, published in 1847, which, among other...
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An Ornate Memorial With Complex Heraldry
There is quite a range of heraldic memorials in St. Margaret's Chapel, Westminster, from those just about a hundred years old to those much older. This next memorial is one of the latter, in addition...
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