Arms above Court of Exchequer doorway
GAZETTEER NO.
EDI_0007.01
ARMS
ROYAL ARMS OF UK (Hanover - George III)
BLAZON
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory Gules (for Scotland); 2nd, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England); 3rd, Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), over all an inescutcheon, ensigned by an Elector’s cap, Tierced per pale and per chevron; 1st, Gules two lions passant guardant Or (for Brunswick); 2nd, Or semée of hearts Gules a lion rampant Azure (for Luneburg); 3rd, Gules a horse courant Argent (for Hanover), an inescutcheon over all three, Gules the Crown of Charlemagne Proper (as Archtreasurer of the Holy Roman Empire)
CREST
upon the Royal Helm, the Royal Crown Proper, thereon a lion sejant affronty Gules, regally crowned Or, holding erect in the dexter paw a naked sword, and in the sinister a sceptre erect, also Proper
SUPPORTERS
(dexter): a unicorn Argent, regally crowned, armed, crined and unguled Or, and gorged with a coronet composed of crosses paty and fleurs-de-lys Or (sinister): a lion rampant guardant Or, crowned Proper
MOTTO
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (around Garter) DIEU ET MON DROIT (in scroll below)
DATE OF BUILDING OR MEMORIAL
1806/1830
CONDITION
Very Good

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