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Well, This One Turned Out to Be Frustrating to Properly Identify
I mean, really, I've been researching heraldry for a long time now, and particularly for something like quartered arms, attached to a family of a not terribly common surname, and accompanied with an...
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It's Sad to See Someone Die So Young
Our next armorial memorial is to a young wife to died far too early, at the age of 22, when she had been married for just a year and three months.This is the armorial memorial of Lady Mary Hore, née...
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Memorial to a Wife by Her Sister
Our next armorial memorial in York Minster has a bit of a story to tell: Though it has on its face the marital arms of a woman, it was not erected by her husband, but by her younger sister. (Who, based...
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I Love Seeing 17th Century Armorial Memorials
Because they are just so incredibly complex to look at; it takes time to really take one in fully and see all the different elements and how they come together to create a united whole.And the...
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Another Great 17th Century Armorial Memorial
As I said last time, I really enjoy seeing 17th Century armorial memorials, and today we're going to look at another, also armorial, but even more sculpturally figural, memorial.This is the memorial of...
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Married, But Clearly Not for Long
The short marriage of the husband and wife who are commemorated in our next memorial remind me of a line from Act I, Scene II, of Shakespeare's Richard III: "I'll have her, but I will not keep her...
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Two Different Coats of Arms, But Whose Are They Really?
Our next memorial in York Minster is that of John Brooke, about whom A Guide to the Heraldry in York Minster tells us only that he was Precentor, lived 1567 to 1616, and that the monument displays...
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And Now For Some Personal Heraldry of Soldiers
The next several monuments we are going to visit in York Minster are erected to the memory of varioius military men.The first is that of Captain Pelsant Reeves.Capt. Reeves, as the inscription tells...
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Oh, Captain, My Captain!
Yes, I know that the heading, taken from the poem by Walt Whitman written in 1865 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln has nothing whatever to do with this next memorial in York...
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An Officer and a Knight
Yes, I know that the phrase is usually "an officer and a gentleman," but in this instance, the gentleman was knighted, so there you go.Our next memorial to a military man in the crypt of York Minster...
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A Life That Sounds Like a Movie
Or a least, a movie title, something along the lines of: The Bengal Lancers. Or the old 1950s TV series, "Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers."But seriously, one of the things that I really enjoy about...
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"I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"
Well, sure, the inscription on our next memorial says "Lt.-General", which outranks a Major-General, but in addition to not scanning as well if you are singing the line from Gilbert and Sullivan (as I...
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Arms and Other Symbols in the Choir of York Minster, Part 1 of 3
The Choir of York Minster is not without its own heraldic (and quasi-heraldic) decorations.And we're going to cover many of those in this series of three blog posts. (Broken up so as to avoid making...
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Arms and Other Symbols in the Choir of York Minster, Part 2 of 3
Today is the second of three posts on the heraldry and other quasi-heraldic items found in the choir stalls in York Minster.You will note that some of these are somewhat less heraldic than...
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Arms and Other Symbols in the Choir of York Minster, Part 3 of 3
Today is the last of our series of three posts on the heraldry and heraldry-like designs that appear in the choir of York Minster.Scholarum de Cantu (the York Choir School), with the arms of St....
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 1 of 7 (the...
Beginning with this post, we are going to visit each of these seven windows in the Chapter House in the order I photographed them, turning to the one immediately to the left of the entrance (that is,...
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 2 of 7 (the...
Continuing our circular perambulation around the Chapter House in York Minster, we come to the heraldry in the North window.Again, you can click on the image below to go to a larger, more detailed...
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It's International Heraldry Day!
Greetings on International Heraldry Day! International Heraldry Day is the one day each year the entire heraldic community celebrates worldwide the wonderful science, art, and tradition that is...
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 3 of 7 (the...
Continuing along to the next (the northeast) window in the Chapter House, we find these coats of arms:Following the same general pattern for the arrangement of coats of arms that is followed in all of...
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The Heraldic Glass in the Chapter House of York Minster: Part 4 of 7 (the...
Continuing our clockwise circumlocution of the Chapter House in York Minster, we come to the East Window.In the rose window at the top, we see the arms of England, Gules three lions passant guardant in...
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