Location
Above the door of the Burnett Arms Hotel Banchory High Street
Banchory
OS Map Reference
NO 695 957
Description
A polychrome 3 dimensional armorial panel, with the belted royal arms dexter and the Duchese's ? sinister, (I am unsure of the material this is made from it appears to be some sort of plastic compound, like coed stone or gesso).
Related Information
Royal recognition of sorts and now identified as the arms of the Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria who visited Abergeldie Castle on several occasions when the Queen was at Balmoral. It is held that she stayed at least once at the Burnett Arms Hotel, then a coaching inn, when travel to Balmoral was by coach and horses.
Era
1800s
Categories
Iconography
- heraldic motifs
- lion
- mythical or heraldic beast
Photographer
- Jim Henderson
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