Royal Coat of Arms

I confess I was torn what to use as today's blip as I had a beautiful photo of Shelly and Noah. However there will be future opportunities to see them and possibly less so from The Guildhall where I met up with fellow Constructors and were given a really interesting tour by Paul Singh who is a Councillor. The blurb relating to this blip tells us: "The Royal Coat of Arms is made from plaster with an infant figure seated at either side supporting a shield of the City arms c 1670. It was removed from the  Wren church of 3 St Michael Bassishaw (Basinghall Street) before it was demolished in 1897. The arms are those of the Stuart Kings (pre 1968); the arms on the left are those of England and on the right of the City of London.

following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, a new statute reinforced earlier decrees that require that the royal arms should be displayed in all churches . Many such depictions of the Royal arms survive in churches in England, most of them later (mainly the Hanoverian period).........

The demolition of St Michael Bassishaw and the transfer of this coat of arms to Guildhall Museum effectively preserved it from similar destruction.