"Azure a Celtic cross cantoned between in dexter chief a dove volant descendant and in sinister chief a book expanded Argent binding and fore-edges Gules in dexter base a crozier head contournée and in sinister base a crozier head Argent."
Thursday, 4 December 2014
School heraldry: St Ninian's High School, Eastwood
One of Scotland's top state schools, St Ninian's celebrated its 30th birthday in 2014. Significantly, on its foundation, the Headmaster immediately applied to the Lyon Court for a grant of arms and they are rather splendid:
"Azure a Celtic cross cantoned between in dexter chief a dove volant descendant and in sinister chief a book expanded Argent binding and fore-edges Gules in dexter base a crozier head contournée and in sinister base a crozier head Argent."
"Azure a Celtic cross cantoned between in dexter chief a dove volant descendant and in sinister chief a book expanded Argent binding and fore-edges Gules in dexter base a crozier head contournée and in sinister base a crozier head Argent."
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Hamilton Palace reconstructed
Hamilton Palace was demolished in the 1920s, largely because the coalmines which had provided successive dukes with much of their wealth were causing dangerous subsidence. Now much of the old drawing room, which had been dismantled and packed off to America, has been reassembled in the National Museum of Scotland.
Now the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) has created a virtual reconstruction of the Palace HERE.
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