Heraldry

Every lovely garden needs a lovely garden fence to match, right? #HamptonCourtPalace is no different! Right now we’re doing some work on ours — welcome to the spectacular Tijou Screen in the Privy Garden 😲 (1/6)

RT @HeraldryOnline Grant of Arms: William Phelps Vaile of West Malling 1827 dlvr.it/RvKkxP

Grant of Arms: William Phelps Vaile of West Malling 1827 heraldryonline.wordpress.com/2021/03/10/gra…

One of my favourite features on an effigy is the soles (souls!) of Sir John Leigh (d.1529) in Godshill Church, #isleofwight. There are two weeping monks with rosaries in hand praying for his soul. Has anyone seen such a placement elsewhere? #tombtuesday

The Duke of Lancaster-in a Chivalric Pose @EnglishHeritage also the Loyal Toast, "The Queen, Duke of Lancaster." @HeraldicArms

unidentified coat of arms, #heraldry on large, dismantlement funerary monument, 19th cent., no inscriptions. @flagsheraldry @HeraldicArms

Lively Rhinoceros cresting the #stainedglass arms of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Apothecaries Hall in the City of London. Superb work by the artist #CarlEdwards FMGP can be seen not far away at Temple Church #LoveLondon @ArtGuideAlex @heraldique_fr @HeraldicArms

#heraldic essays: Semy-De-Lys @GothImagination @ArtHistoryStA @HeraldicArms @C15Katie tinyurl.com/jtqrzuo

@LyonCourt can I freely reproduce arms from my #letterspatent, or are there copyrights by the (unknown) artist?

#OTD 100 years ago these arms were recorded for financier & parliamentarian Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon

WORD OF THE DAY: yale - mythical animal, a tusked horse with elephant's tail in heraldry, centicore

Today is 751 years since the Battle of #Largs. The burgh arms show the Scots as thistles seeing off the Norwegians...

Great photos from @CulzeanCastle: perhaps the arms of the Marquess of Ailsa feature on the ceilings and walls too?

The Duke of Edinburgh's present grant quarters Denmark, Greece, the Mountbatten family and Edinburgh @BritishMonarchy

We are sorry to learn of the untimely death of Archibald Kennedy, 8th Marquess of Ailsa, Chief of #Clan Kennedy

St Moluag's staff can be also be found crossed behind the arms of its keeper, Livingstone of Bachuil @rosieweetch

Proclamation dissolving Westminster Parliament read from Mercat Cross in Edinburgh bbc.co.uk/news/live/elec…

#OnThisDay 100 years ago these arms were matriculated for Sir Bruce Seton of Abercorn, Bt, which quarter Seton & Hay

#OnThisDay in 1900 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne, was born.