Blairgowrie and Rattray

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BLAIRGOWRIE AND RATTRAY

Burgh

Incorporated into: 1975 Perth and Kinross District Council (1996 Perth and Kinross Area Council)

Arms (crest) of Blairgowrie and Rattray

Official blazon

Per pale embattled: dexter, Or, three bars wavy Gules, each charged with an escallop Or, a chief enarched Argent masoned Sable; sinister, Azure, on a fess wavy between three cross­ crosslets fitchee Or, a bar wavy Gules.

Which Shield is ensigned with a coronet appropriate to a Burgh.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on June 9, 1951.

Blairgowrie and Rattray were united as one Burgh in 1929. Blairgowrie was made a Burgh of Barony in favour of George Drummond of Blair in 1634. Rattray, on the opposite side of the river Ericht, became a Police Burgh in 1873.

The arms signify the fusion of the two Burghs into one by the division by em­battled pale. The dexter side, for Blairgowrie, shows a heraldic rendering of the Brig o' Blair, which spans the Ericht between the two towns, with the arms of Drummond of Blair (conveniently wavy and thus like a river) below.

On the sinister side, for Rattray, are the Rattray family arms charged with a Drummond golden and red fess wavy recalling that Ann Drummond of Maderty married a seventeenth-century Laird of Craighall-Rattray.

The Brig o' Blair appeared on the old Blairgowrie seal and the Rattray arms on the old Rattray seal, both of which went out of use in 1929.

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Seal of Blairgowrie as used in the 1890s
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Seal of Rattray as used in the 1890s

Community Council

Arms (crest) of Blairgowrie and Rattray

Official blazon

Per pale embattled: dexter, Or. three bars wavy Gules, each charged with an escallop Or, a chief enarched Argent, masoned Sable; sinister, Azure, on a fess wavy between three cross-crosslets fitchee Or, a bar wavy Gules.

Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on May 22, 1990.

These are the Burgh arms with a crown of a community council.


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