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A New On-Line Source for Researching Heraldry
There was a short article near the back of the most recent Coat of Arms from The Heraldry Society (England) that caught my eye.After checking it out, I thought it was something that I simply had to...
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The Arms of an Archbishop?
Not surprisingly, there are ecclesiastical arms in the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, which sits just outside the gate of Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishops of Canterbury in London.Here, held...
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The Arms of an Archbishop!
There is more certainty about this coat of arms and to whom they belonged: it is the arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury impaled with those of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1486...
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Carved Royal Arms at St. Mary-at-Lambeth
Many churches in England (and Scotland, too!) have an image of the Royal Arms somewhere in their interior. St. Mary-at-Lambeth is no exception to this general rule, although the Royal Arms are not...
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Why Did I Think This Would Be Easier?
Continuing our circuit of the arms on the walls of the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth, and given the prominence of some of the other coats of arms at the bases of the arches supporting the roof, I...
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A Memorial to an Archbishop
Set into one of the walls at the church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth in London, and partly hidden behind some empty flower pots and other gardening supplies when we were there (the chapel is now the Garden...
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A Memorial to a Beloved Rector
The other heraldic stone memorial which I photographed in the Garden Museum, formerly St. Mary-at-Lambeth Church, was to a former Rector of the Church, an ecclesiastic of some reknown.The text of the...
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More Arms in St. Mary-at-Lambeth Chapel
There are other coats of arms held by angels which support the roof arches in St. Mary-at-Lambeth (now the Garden Museum), which I feel I ought to share with you, but most of which I have been (so far)...
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The Other Large Tomb in the Garden at St. Mary-at-Lambeth, London
In addition to the table tomb of Rear Admiral William Bligh and other family members and descendants in what is now the garden of The Garden Center (formerly St. Mary-at-Lambeth churchyard)...
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Don't Try to Tell Me That Heraldry Is Dead!
Or dying.Occasionally I'll run across someone who believes that heraldry, and the use of coats of arms, is something best left to the antiquarian, a moderately interesting field but one which has no...
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An Unexpected But Familiar Coat of Arms at St. Mary-at-Lambeth Church
In looking at the stained glass windows in St. Mary-at-Lambeth, I noticed a coat of arms that I found very familiar from our trip to Glasgow, Scotland.The window contains images of St. Ninian and St....
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The Arms of a Hospital
Leaving the little church of St. Mary-at-Lambeth and its many heraldic offerings behind us, we took a stroll down one of the nearby streets and came upon this:The large, and busy, St. Thomas' Hospital...
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A High School Class Creates a Coat of Arms
Well, if you're going to get a classroom full of high school students to enjoy studying Shakespeare, this is certainly one way to go about it!Teacher Megan Schott of St. Joseph High School got the...
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A Pseudo-Heraldic Logo
It is interesting to note how often a shield shape is used to exemplify protection.Continuing our walk beyond St. Thomas' Hospital, we passed a construction area which boldly announced that it was...
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A Newly-Digitized Heraldic Research Tool
For those of you who know of the four-volume set Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary, you know it's a great set of books, but one which may be a bit beyond many budgets. There is some recent...
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A Nicely-Carved Achievement of Arms
Continuing our walk from St. Mary-at-Lambeth back toward the Houses of Parliament in London, we came by the Marriott Hotel, which as a sign on its facade indicates, used to be the London County...
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A Final Post From Our London Trip
Walking across one of the many bridges across the Thames River to get back to the north bank from whence we could catch the Tube back to our hotel, we passed several cast iron panels with these arms...
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"Primrose, Maybe?": A Follow-Up
In my post of October 2, 2017 (https://blog.appletonstudios.com/2017/10/primrose-maybe.html) I'd uploaded two photographs of a corbel in St. Cuthbert's Church in Dalmeny, Scotland which contained a...
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Next Stop: Arras, France!
Our most recent trip overseas took us to the city hosting the XXXIII International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Arras, France.We arrived a couple of days before the Congress was to...
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Another Application of the Arms of Arras
Our next example of the civic coat of arms of the city of Arras, France, comes from the side of a public weights building.It's a very pretty little building, standing by itself amid some trees,...
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