A couple of weekends ago I was in Salisbury with the family and I re-visited the Parish Church of St Thomas and St Edmund. My first visit was a bit of a failure because my digital camera died on me. However, this time armed with my new camera and in the company of my father-in-law I had more success.
As a interim step I have uploaded some of the pictures to photobucket. The link below will take you to the gallery via the main website.
On Saturday 24th September I was up in the City to attend a Regimental lunch at HMS President (RNR) in St Katherine’s Dock. I arrived early enough to stroll round my old haunts in the City from when I worked in the Lloyd’s Insurance market. A few random heraldic photographs:
The Union Discount Company of London
Doorway of St Andrew's Undershaft
Arms of the Clothworkers' Company
Leadenhall Market, Arms of the City of London
My main effort was in the Church of All Hallows by the Tower. That will be a major project in its own right – time permitting.
As a keen student of genealogy I have been watching the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Last night it was the turn of the actress Emilia Fox. The latter part of the programme covered her great great grandfather Samson Fox. He was the guiding force behind Harrogate’s Royal Hall. The show briefly displayed a view of his Arms in the ceiling of the Hall:
Fox-Davies’ Armorial Families gives the blazon as:
Arms: Argent a representation of a corrugated boiler-flue fesseways proper between two foxes courant Gules each holding in their mouth a trefoil slipped Vert.
Crest: A representation of a corrugated boiler-flue as in the Arms and thereupon a fox Gules resting the dexter pay upon a trefoil slipped Vert.
Motto: Forti Nihil Difficile. (To the brave, nothing is difficult.)
The Harleian Society’s Grantees of Arms has the following:
A new webpage has been added for St Mary’s Church, Buriton, Hampshire.
Cornwall County Council Arms
The Arms of Cornwall County Council as displayed at Land’s End.
Arms: Sable fifteen Bezants in pile within a Bordure barry wavy of eight Argent and Azure.
Crest: On a Wreath Argent and Azure a Chough proper resting the dexter claw upon a Ducal Coronet Or.
Supporters: On the dexter side a Fisherman holding over the exterior shoulder a net and on the sinister side a Miner resting the exterior hand on a sledge hammer all proper.
Motto: One and all.
The Arms were granted 5th April 1939.
Bolitho
Paul Parish Church contains a wooden screen upon which are various Arms. Unfortunately, during my very quick visit I did not find any details. The Arms above are probably for a descendant of Simon Bolitho (b.1695 d.1787) who married Mary, daughter and heir of Edward Borlase, by Prudence, daughter and heir of Peter Trevelyan, of Basell, in Cornwall.
The Dexter Arms:
1st and 4th Ermine on a plain chevron between two chevronels engrailed and three fleurs-de-lis Sable five bezants (Bolitho)
2nd Ermine on a bend Sable two hands and arms issuing out of the clouds at the elbows rending a horseshoe Or (Borlase)
3rd Gules a demi horse Argent hoofed and maned Or issuing out of water in base proper (Trevelyan)
Impaling
1st Or a mountain Azure inflamed proper (MacLeod of Cadboll *)
2nd Gules, three legs conjoined and armed Proper garnished Or (Lordship of Man)
3rd Or, lymphad: Sable, sail furled, oars in action, flags Gules (Lordship of the Isles )
4th Azure, a castle triple-towered and embattled argent, masined sable, windows and porch gules. (McLeod)
The wife’s 1st quarter currently eludes me. A Bolitho did marry a Mcleod in the 1880s. More research required. * My thanks to Arthur Radburn
Update:
The Arms are those of Lt Col William Edward Thomas Bolitho DSO [Burke's landed Gentry - Bolitho of Trengwainton] and Ethel Grace MacLeod, daughter of Robert Bruce AEnaeas MacLeod of Cadboll. He was only surviving son of William Bolitho of Polwithen and Mary Hichens Yonge, daughter and co-heir of William Yonge.
Colonel Bolitho died in 1919¹ having resigned command of the 2/1st Royal Devon Yeomanry in 1918 because of bad health. Both his sons pre-deceased him, Lt William Torquill MacLeod Bolitho was killed in action in 1915 aged 22. He left a daughter, Brenda Grace.
¹ Col Bolitho’s effects were valued at £176,114 6s 8d for Probate in 1919.
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 | . |
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;
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
Impaling Langham – Quarterly of 6
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;
Given that Mary Anne Muskett was also a heraldic heiress, her children could quarter her Arms with those of their father;
Quarterly 1st & 4th Or a saltire Gules beween two crescents in pale of the last and as many gryphons’ heads erased in fess Sable (for Unthank) 2nd & 3rd 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 .
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