Heraldry on the BBC – Waking the Dead

Whilst watching a recent episode of the BBC’s “Waking the Dead” I noticed some heraldic stained glass in one scene. Using the marvellous BBC iPlayer I managed to get this screenshot;

The story line has the location as a convent in Ireland. However, I dare say the BBC’s location budget puts the building a bit closer to London.

Now to identify the five sets of Arms and the building.

My start;

Window – L to R	Blazon	Armiger
1	Argent two bars wavy between three eagles displayed Azure	.
2	.	.
3	.	.
4	Gules two chevron(el)s Argent	.
5	Argent three mullets Azure within a bordure Sable	.

Edington Priory Church, Wiltshire

Over the weekend of the 8th/9th March I visited Edington Priory Church. A selection of the pictures taken in the Church can be viewed in a slide show linked below;

Edington Priory Church slideshow

Edington Armorial 

Earl of Warrington – Bowdon Parish Church

My thanks to Richard Lichten who sent me a number of photographs of heraldic memorials in Bowdon Parish Church. One of which is for Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, and his wide Mary (nee Langham of Cottesbrooke)

Booth – Quarterly of 9

1. Argent three boars’ heads erect Sable (for Booth)
2. Argent a fess engrailed Gules (for Barton)
3. Azure two bars Argent in chief as many mullets of the last (for Venables of Bollen)
4. Argent on a bend Azure three garbs Or (for Fitton)
5. Quarterly Gules and Or in the first quarter a lion passant Argent (for Massey)
6. Bendy Or and Azure (for Mountfort)
7. Argent on a chief Azure two fleur-de-lys Or (Clinton of Coleshill)
   
8. Argent a mullet Sable (for Ashton)
9. Argent a lion rampant Gules between three pheons Sable (for Egerton)

Impaling Langham – Quarterly of 6

1. Argent three bears’ heads erased Sable muzzled Or (for Langham of Cottesbrooke)
2. Ermine a chevron Gules within a bordure engrailed Sable
3. Azure two bends Argent
4. Gules two lions passant Argent (for Strange)
   
5. Azure 10 estoiles Or 4,3,2,1
6. Sable three horses’ heads erased Argent a canton ermine
   

Unthank Arms

Arms were granted to Unthank of Intwood Hall, Norfolk in 1863 – Vol. LV fol. 68

Or a saltire Gules beween two crescents in pale of the last and as many gryphons’ heads erased in fess Sable.

The grantee was most likely to be Clement William Unthank JP, DL. He married in 1835 Mary Anne Muskett the only daughter and heir to Joseph Salisbury Muskett of Intwood Hall. Joseph Muskett died in 1860. No doubt the inheritance of the estate of over 2,400 acres prompted Clement Unthank to petition for a grant of Arms. Clement died in 1884 aged about 79.

His immediate descendants;

1. Lt-Col Clement William Joseph Unthank b.1847 m.1873 Judith Sarah Onley d.1936
   1. Lt Clement William Onley Unthank b.1874 d.1900 at Lucknow
   2. John Salusbury Unthank b.1875 m.1909 d.1959
      1. Margaret Beatrice Unthank b.1910 d.1995
   3. Judith Marian Unthank b.1876
   4. Maria Janet Unthank b.1877
   5. Ralph Arthur Unthank b.1880
   6. Marjory E Unthank b.1881
   7. Ursula Clementine Unthank b.1886
   8. Dorothy Mary Unthank b.1888 m.1928 William Edward van Cutsem
   9. Cicely May Unthank b.1889
   10. Amy Violet Unthank b.1893 m.1916 John H Leche (tbc)
2. John Unthank b.1849
3. Mary Anne Clementine Unthank b.1843
4. Elizabeth Salisbury Unthank b.1845

Given that Mary Anne Muskett was also a heraldic heiress, her children could quarter her Arms with those of their father;

Quarterly 1^st & 4^th Or a saltire Gules beween two crescents in pale of the last and as many gryphons’ heads erased in fess Sable (for Unthank) 2^nd & 3^rd Argent two bars between six lions’ heads caboshed Gules (for Muskett).

The Intwood estate was inherited by Miss Margaret Beatrice Unthank from her father, John Salusbury Unthank, in 1960. When she died in 1995, her cousin, Mrs. Jan Darling and family continue to live at Intwood Hall. It would appear that the Hall has be subsequently sold – http://www.ckd.co.uk/intwood.html .