SION COLLEGE: BLAZONRY OF ARMS

R. P. Ellis, 'Blazonry of arms in the windows of the outer hall of Sion College, Victoria Embankment, E.C. April MCMIX'. A description of the eighty coats of arms portrayed in six windows in the hall of Sion College at 56, Victoria Embankment, London. The College opened its new buildings on this site in 1886. The arms are those of the founders of the College and its Library (Thomas White and John Simson), Bishops of London from William Laud (1628) to Robert Lowth (1777), and Presidents of Sion College 1709-1886, mainly those of the 19th century. With pen and ink drawings showing the layout of the coats of arms in each window. At f. 7v is a watercolour of the arms of Tyndal Thompson Walmsley, President of Sion College in 1823. At f. 91v. is a note that the original windows were destroyed by enemy action in the Second World War, and that new windows were installed in 1952.

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