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Armorial Memorial Familial Connections - Part 2 of 3
Our next armorial memorial in St. Martin's, Canterbury, has, along with two other coats of arms, the arms of Austen which we saw in our last post.This mrmorial is to the Rev’d. Thomas Gurney, Vicar of...
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Armorial Memorial Familial Connections - Part 3 of 3
Finally, we come to our final heraldically-related memorial in St. Martin's, Canterbury.The Latin inscription has been translated (not by me, I have to use one of the on-line Latin-English translators...
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It's International Heraldry Day!
International Heraldry Day, first celebrated in 2013, focuses one day each year when heraldry in all its forms is celebrated worldwide. Regardless of jurisdiction, geographic area, customs, favored...
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Heraldry, Genealogy, and Serendipity
The other day, my wife and I had a little over an hour to kill away from home, and so we dropped by one of our favorite antique malls in Dallas, not to buy anything, but to look around and give us...
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Heraldry on Christ Church Gate, Canterbury
Christ Church Gate, an impressive edifice directly on one side of the Buttermarket at the intersection of Burgate and Mercery Lane, and the main entrance to Canterbury Cathedral, was built between 1504...
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More Heraldry(?) on Christ Church Gate, Canterbury
Moving on now to the upper row of painted coats of arms on the Christ Church Gate facade, each held by an angel, I have to admit that I am not even certain that they are actual heraldry. There are...
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Arms on the Gate of Christ Church Gate, Canterbury
Having looked at the facade and its two rows of heraldry, we now come to the gate of Christ Church Gate in Canterbury.Above the main gate (we will discuss the smaller postern gate in our next post) we...
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Arms on the Postern Gate at Christ Church Gate, Canterbury
Next to the main gate at Christ Church Gate, Canterbury, which leads into the precincts of the famous Canterbury Cathedral, is a smaller postern gate, which bears three coats of of arms.In the upper...
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It's Time to Start Preparing
Just a few days ago I ran across the announcement that the website for the XXXIV International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, to be held in Madrid, Spain in October 2020, was up and...
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It's the Fourth of July!
Today's date reminds me of the old joke:Q: "Do they have the fourth of July in Great Britain?"A: "Of course they do. It's just that it's not a holiday there."Anyway, we celebrate the Fourth of July...
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We Finally Get to Canterbury Cathedral
Okay, I've been leading up to this first post about the heraldry in Canterbury Cathedral for a while now, and we're finally at that point!One of the most-often discussed heraldry at the Cathedral is on...
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Armorial Memorial to a Father, Mother, and Son
Whew! After walking all around the Great Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral with my head in the air looking at all the shields on the ceiling (documented in my previous post), it was time to look at the...
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Memorial to a Wife in the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral
Continuing our march around the aisle of the Great Cloister of Canterbury Cathedral, I came across this armorial gem:Here lyes the Body ofANNE TENISONWidow of Dr. Edward Tenisonlate Bishop of Ossoryin...
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The (Very Worn) Heraldry of a Husband and Wife
Continuing around the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral, we come to this worn stone:The inscription reads:Here lieth the Bodies of Martin HIRST, Gent.and Lucie his wife. She dyed the Fourth day...
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An Armorial Wall Memorial in the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral
Not all of the armorial memorials in the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral are in the floor; some are set into the wall around the Cloister.Sacred to the Memory ofthe Revd James Ford, B.A.for forty...
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Another Armorial Memorial in the Floor of the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral
Continuing our circumlocution of the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral, we come to this memorial set into the floor:Here lieth Interred the Body ofISAAC TERRY, Gent.who departed this life Septemrthe...
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An Armorial Memorial, with an Armorial Mystery
Continuing on around the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral, we find this armorial memorial set into the floor:Here resteth the body ofELIZABETH the Wife of theRevd WM BRODERIP Minor Canonof this...
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A Memorial to an Officer Lost in the Great War
Continuing our perambulation around the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral, we found this memorial to an officer of the Royal Navy who lost his life in World War I in 1916.The inscription reads:Favente...
View ArticleA Follow-Up to a Previous Post
On June 20, 2019, I posted about "More Heraldry(?) on Christ Church Gate, Canterbury, which can be found at https://blog.appletonstudios.com/2019/06/more-heraldry-on-christ-church-gate.htmlAt the time...
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Another Monument to a Clergyman
Nearing the end of our survey of the heraldry in the Cloister at Canterbury Cathedral, we come to this monument to a clergyman.The lower part of the inscription is, alas, broken and only partly...
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