Dumfries and Galloway blazon

[Tim Little]

I'm hoping someone would be able to provide the proper blazon for the Dumfries and Galloway district arms, shown below. (I could have sworn I once found this info somewhere online, but it's lost to me now....)



The Heraldry of the World website offers the following "translation":

The arms shows a St. Andrew's cross for Scotland within a bordure and a red esutcheon. The lion on the escutcheon is the silver lion of Galloway. The supporters are the unicorn common to all Regional Councils, and a stag in its natural colours which comes from the arms of Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale.

Above the shield is the coronet common to all Area Councils, made up of eight gold triangles representing paling or fencing and eight golden sheaves of grain tied about the middle with black twine.

A scroll beneath the shield bears the motto Quinque Uniter (Five into One). Adopted by Dumfries and Galloway Council to symbolise the coming together of the former Regional Council and four District Councils, Qunique Uniter was the motto of Annandale and Eskdale District Council.

Many thanks in advance for indulging my curiosity!

[Tim Little]

I just needed to ask, I guess....

Azure; a saltire argent, surmounted, at the fess point, by an inescutcheon gules, fimbriated or, charged with a lion rampant argent, crowned or; a bordure counter compony azure and argent

coronet - area council

supporters - dexter, a stag proper and sinister, a unicorn argent, armed, maned and unguled or, gorged with a collar gules, pendent thereform an oval badge azure, fimbriated or, charged with a saltire argent

motto - below the shield, Quinque uniter

Public Register - 79/45; 28 May 1996

The bearings, apart from the area council coronet, are a �re-grant� of the bearings, less the regional council coronet, of the pre 1996 Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council�s - with a motto, which the regional council did not have

community councils with bearings - Annan, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright & District, Moffat and District, Stewarton and District, Wigtown

for more information see R M Urquhart: Scottish Civic Heraldry 2, 2001; Scottish Civic Heraldry, 1979

From the Heraldry Society of Scotland