The Scottish Heraldic Gazetteer

North façade (Charles II) (2023)

GAZETTEER NO.

GLA_0004.01

ARMS

ROYAL ARMS OF UK (Scottish quartering) (Charles II)

BLAZON

Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory Gules (Scotland); 2nd, grand quarterly, (i) & (iv) Azure, three fleurs de lys Or (France) (ii) & (iii) Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or (England); 3rd, Azur

CREST

upon the Royal Crown, a lion sejant affronty, holding in dexter paw a sword and in sinister paw a sceptre

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, a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back [Or] (sinister): a lion ra

MOTTO

IN DEFENCE - DIEU ET MON DROIT - HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

DATE OF ARMS

1649-85

DATE OF BUILDING OR MEMORIAL

1885-88

CONDITION

Very Good

THREAT

Moderate

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