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Arms of Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Earldom of Aubigny; 2 & 3 Stewart of Darnley. Overall an inescutcheon for the Earldom of Lennox. #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Stirling #StainedGlassSunday

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by a circular golden halo decorated with fleurs de lis, roses, buckles, and foliage. The shield is divided into quarters, the upper-left and lower-right of which each show three golden fleurs de lis on a blue background within a red border that is decorated with eight golden buckles; the upper-right and lower-left quarters, meanwhile, each show a horizontal band, checkered in blue and white, against a gold background within a red border whose inner edges feature cup-shaped indentations. Covering the centre of the shield is a smaller shield that displays four red roses arranged around a red saltire on a white background. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Arms of Alexander Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Azure three garbs or (Earldom of Buchan); 2 & 3 Or a fess checky azure and argent (Stewart). #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Stirling #StainedGlassSunday

Arms of William Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Caithness. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Azure a lymphad or in full sail argent (Earldom of Caithness); 2 & 3 Argent a cross engrailed sable (Sinclair). #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Stirling #StainedGlassSunday

Arms of Cuthbert Cunningham, 3rd Earl of Glencairn. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Argent a pall sable. #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #StirlingCastle #Stirling #StainedGlassSunday

Arms of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly. Quarterly 1 Azure three boars' heads couped or (Gordon); 2 Or three lions' heads erased gules (Badenoch); 3 Or three crescents within a double tressure flory counterflory gules (Seton); 4 Azure three fraises argent (Fraser). #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday

Arms of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray. Quarterly, 1 and 4 Argent three cushions within a double tressure flory counterflory gules (Moray); 2 and 3 Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory gules debruised by a riband sinister sable (Scotland). #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday

Arms of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 and 4 Paly of six or and sable (Earldom of Atholl); 2 and 3 Or a fess checky azure and argent (Stewart). #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Stirling #Scotland #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of William Hay, 4th Earl of Errol. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Argent three escutcheons gules. #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Armorial #Stirling #Scotland #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms (possibly subtly erroneous) of William Keith, 2nd Earl Marischal of Scotland. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Argent a chief paly of six or and gules. #Heraldry #Stirling #Scotland #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Or a bend azure (Vaus); 2 & 3 Gules on a chevron argent two lions passant gules pulling at a rose of the same (Hepburn). #Heraldry #Stirling #Scotland #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of James Stewart, Duke of Ross. Stained glass in Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Or a lion rampant gules within a double tressure flory-counterflory of the same (Scotland); 2 Gules three lions rampant argent (Ross); 3 Or three piles gules (Brechin). #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of George Leslie, 2nd Baron Leslie. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Azure on a bend argent three buckles gules (Leslie); 2 & 3 Argent a lion rampant sable armed and langued gules (Mowat). #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 Gules a lion rampant argent (Earldom of Angus); 2 Or a lion rampant gules debruised by a bendlet sable (Lordship of Abernethy)... [1/3] #Heraldry #StainedGlassSunday #Photography

Arms of John Lindsay, 6th Earl of Crawford. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly 1 & 4 Gules a fess checky azure and argent (Lindsay); 2 & 3 Or a lion rampant gules debruised by a bendlet sable (Abernethy) #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #StainedGlassSunday #StainedGlass #Photography

Arms of William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Or on a chief sable three escallops of the first (Graham); 2 & 3 Argent three roses gules (Earldom of Montrose) #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #StainedGlassSunday #StainedGlass #Photography

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by a circular golden halo adorned with scallop shells and roses. The shield is divided into quarters. The upper-left and lower-right of these are each largely gold, with a black stripe across the top that is decorated with three gold scallop shells. The upper-right and lower-left quarters are each white with a triangle of three red roses. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Arms of John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Argent on a chief gules two mullets of the first. #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #StainedGlass #Photography

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by a circular golden halo featuring stars and entwined leafy tendrils. The shield is mainly white, albeit with stylised floral patterning in light grey, while across the top of the shield is a red stripe upon which are two white five-pointed stars. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Arms of Alexander Graham, 2nd Earl of Mentieth. Stained glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 Argent on a chief sable three escallops or (Graham); 2 & 3 Or two chevrons gules (Earldom of Stratherne); 4 Or a fess checky azure and argent (Stewart) #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #StainedGlass

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by an intricately patterned golden halo. The shield is divided into four quarters, the upper-left of which is mainly white with three golden scallop shells on a black band across the top. The upper-right and lower-left quarters are gold with two upward-pointed red chevrons, and the lower-right quarter is gold with a horiontal stripe in blue and white checks. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Arms of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran. Stained Glass in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle. Quarterly, 1 & 4 Argent a lymphad sable (Earldom of Arran and Lord of the Isles); 2 & 3 Gules three cinquefoils argent (Hamilton). The quarters appear to be interchanged in error. #Heraldry #CoatOfArms #Arran

A photograph of heraldic stained glass. A central shield is surmounted by a golden coronet and surrounded by a circular golden halo of floral design. The shield is divided into four quarters, the upper-left and lower-right displaying a black galley (although sans the oars and sails that it ought to possess) on a white background. The upper-right and lower-left quarters show a triangle of three five-petalled flowers in white upon a red background. Outside the halo is a regular diamond pattern of plain glass.

Ginger Tom. Part of a mural by Chris Rutterford in the Alloway Railway Tunnel. #MuralMonday #Mural #Cats #Ginger #Tabby #Railways #Alloway #Ayrshire #Photography

Photograph of a mural depicting a ginger cat prowling from the left background toward the right foreground. Its right-front paw is slightly raised as it treads over intertwined root- or snake-like coils in shades of orange and brown.

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Ginger Tom. Part of a mural by Chris Rutterford in the Alloway Railway Tunnel. #MuralMonday #Mural #Cats #Ginger #Tabby #Railways #Alloway #Ayrshire #Photography

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Arms of Henry Percy, 7th Baron Topcliffe, and Eleanor de Warenne, Galilee Chapel, Durham Cathedral. Or a lion rampant azure (Percy Modern) impaling checky or and azure (Warenne). #StainedGlassSunday #Heraldry #Heraldic #CoatOfArms #DurhamCathedral #Durham #Cathedral #Photography

Photograph of heraldic stained glass. Within a panel comprising jumbled fragments of old glass, a shield is divided vertically. On the left side is a blue lion in rampant pose against a gold background. On the right side is a checkered pattern of gold and blue squares, some of which have evidently been replaced incorrectly after restoration work.