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London Guild<br> | London Guild<br> | ||
Established: <br> | Established: 1782 (but dating from the 14th century)<br> | ||
[[File:lon- | [[File:lon-shipwrights1.jpg|center|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms were officially granted on March 2, 1920. | The arms were officially granted on March 2, 1920, supporters were added in 1982. | ||
{{ | The Company was granted its livery in 1782, but the origins of the Shipwrights’ Company in the City of London date back before 1387. | ||
In the late 16th century, a company of ‘foreign’ shipwrights was founded at Redrith (Rotherhithe) on the south bank of the Thames. Since its membership most probably derived from the Royal Dockyard at Deptford it was clearly a rival to the Free Shipwrights of London on the north bank. By 1578 it was prospering sufficiently to petition for a charter from the Crown which it received in 1612. In 1605, it had been made a grant of arms, which form the basis of the present blazon. | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:lon-shipwrights2.jpg|center|300 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms from 1605 | |||
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In 1684, after a prolonged legal battle, in which the Free Shipwrights had the support of the City the foreign shipwrights’ company was suppressed and its charter cancelled. The Free Shipwrights promptly adopted the foreign shipwrights’ arms and, from the evidence of the arms engraved on the beadle’s silver staff head (1702), used them undifferenced and without authority until 1920 when King George V ordered that the situation should be regularised in accordance with the rules of heraldry. | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:shipwrights.wco.jpg| | |align="center"|[[File:shipwrights.wco.jpg|250 px|center]] <br/>The arms on a [[Wills's - Arms of Companies|Wills's cigarette card]], 1913 | ||
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The differences granted by the College of Arms in that year consisted of adding the sword from the City of London’s arms on the prow of the Ark on both the shield and the crest. The supporters were not granted. | |||
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|align="center"|[[File:lon-shipwrights.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>The arms from 1920 | |||
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In 1982, to commemorate the bicentenary of the grant of Livery, the Company was finally granted the supporters of two shipwrights, one carrying an axe, the other a caulking hammer, as they had been in unofficial use for 200 years. | |||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : Bromley and Child, 1960 | [[Literature]] : Bromley and Child, 1960; Menu card issued by the company, described by Martin Davies in The Heraldry Gazette, New Series 157, September 2020. | ||
[[Category:London Guilds]] | [[Category:London Guilds]] | ||
[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1920]] | [[Category:Granted 1920]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1982]] | |||