Glasgow Coat of Arms

*Broomielaw

Well spotted by @imperfectproduct.bsky.social! Can't help but think if Clyde the Thistle were to be resurrected for the 2026 Commonwealth Games, they'd put him behind a paywall like it seems the TV coverage will be!
The pic on the right is Clyde on the Clyde at Brimmielaw back in 2014 🙄🤨 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Ah. I thought the commentator was talking about the 'huge owns' Scotland were dishing out to the English 😋

A metal sculpture of a tree in a district all too lacking in trees, with a tall and moderately ugly office building behind. A traffic cone is perching in the branches, because of course it is.

The "Tree That Never Grew" on Bothwell Street, bearing the four emblems of the city: the bird, the bell, the fish, and the cone.

Glad you enjoyed it! The collection's grown a lot since the pre-pandemic shows and it's fab that folk have lent CoA items too. Onwards and upwards!! 🐦🌳🔔🐟 and, as you correctly add, 💍 👍

Great to get down to the Deep End today to catch the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social exhibition!
Lovely to see some old faves and some new (to me) ones! 👏❤️
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Looks like it! 👍🐦🌳🔔🐟

Pub sign (Kentigern's) with Bird, fish, bell and tree

Stone carving of a tree ( and more?) in an arch of a South facing gable of the Asylum building...at a distance

@glasgowcoa.bsky.social pub sign and old Blind Asylum...is that a CoA?

Beautiful carved wooden #Glasgow CoA at the Gasgow Art Club 🥰🐦🌳🔔🐟

Article desribing how an artist lost track of her Glasgow symbols sculpture only to be reunited with it 30 years later at the exhibition

Lovely bit of serendipity at our current #Glasgow CoA exhibition as reorted in yesterday's Sunday Post! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

St Mungo, followed by the ring of Languoreth and then the elements of the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social on the Central Entrance of the #Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

Here is the bird that never flew
Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the fish that never swam
Here is the bell that never rang

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The elements of the @glasgowcoa.bsky.social

Here is the bird that never flew
Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the fish that never swam
Here is the bell that never rang

Pulpit stairs, Glasgow Cathedral.

30 years! I would break down in tears. I'm sort of teary just reading about it.

Isn't it!! 😲🐦🌳🔔🐟

Glasgow Artist Reunited with Lost Artwork After 30 Years A Glasgow artist has been left stunned after discovering her own long-lost artwork hanging in an exhibition — more than 30 years after it disappeared. Rosann Cherubini walked into The Deep End on her way to a ceramics studio when she spotted her ceramic and wooden interpretation of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on display. The piece had been bought unknowingly in a job lot and later donated by a local resident. The artwork features in Glasgow Coat of Arms, a crowd-sourced digital archive founded in 2018 by Dr Caroline Scott, celebrating the city’s iconic bird, fish, tree and bell of St Mungo. With over 1,500 images collected, the exhibition highlights Glasgow’s playful reimagining of its civic symbols. Exhibition runs 12 noon – 5pm, Monday - Friday until 6 February at The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ.

Photo of the artist beside her piece

Lovely to see the artist reunited with her work!! 🐦🌳🔔🐟

Me, a white woman with dark hair, looking delighted wearing an oversized green handknitted jumper, with lovely cables up both arms and a complex cabled design on the front. It has a deep ribbed funnel neck which creates a beautiful round yoke shape. It shows the four components of the city of Glasgow's coat of arms: a fish with bobble stitch making the scale texture, a tree with cabled trunk and branches and leaves knitted separately then sewn on, a bird perched at the top of the tree and a ring held in the fish's mouth. Genuinely an absolute work of art

The other project, which may in fact take 200 Sammo films to finish, is to knit this incredible jumper designed by the legendary Mandy McIntosh, which features the Glasgow Coat of Arms depicted in Aran knitting. This is the sample and mine will hopefully be identical. 🌳🕊️🔔🐟 👀@glasgowcoa.bsky.social!

Screenshot of text: "Glasgow Artist Reunited with Lost Artwork After 30 Years A Glasgow artist has been left stunned after discovering her own long-lost artwork hanging in an exhibition — more than 30 years after it disappeared. Rosann Cherubini walked into The Deep End on her way to a ceramics studio when she spotted her ceramic and wooden interpretation of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on display. The piece had been bought unknowingly in a job lot and later donated by a local resident. The artwork features in Glasgow Coat of Arms, a crowd-sourced digital archive founded in 2018 by Dr Caroline Scott, celebrating the city’s iconic bird, fish, tree and bell of St Mungo. With over 1,500 images collected, the exhibition highlights Glasgow’s playful reimagining of its civic symbols. Exhibition runs 12 noon – 5pm, Monday - Friday until 6 February at The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ."

Photo of the artist next to the piece

Positive comments in the comments book at the exhibition

Info poster about the CoA project

Look what happened at the exhibition!! I'm delighted to see this wee piece of magic happen. You never know what might come from putting yourself, your ideas, or your work out there! ✨️🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Glasgow

Happy St Kentigern's Day all Glaswegians 💚 ~ spotted from a far distance here on @govanhillbaths.bsky.social #Glasgow Coat Of Arms window etching... snapped at @glasgowcoa.bsky.social free & community-sourced photo exhib @ Deep End on Nithsdale St which runs until 6th Feb 🙌 bsky.app/profile/csbu...

Need this pop of colour on such a grey, January morning…
Always love seeing this @glasgowcoa.bsky.social at the bottom of Byres Road.
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The middle of three Lancet windows, the coat of arms at the bottom...my glasses, where are my glasses?

Close up of the coat of arms

CWNTYERN

On St Kentigern's Day, fill your boots with Glasgow Cathedral stained glass with some @glasgowcoa.bsky.social and St K himself (unless I'm mistaken, which is entirely possible)

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'Here is the bird that never flew
Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam'

Symbols of the Four Miracles of St Mungo on the arms of the City of Glasgow, in glass by William Wilson in Glasgow Cathedral.

Timeless message from @ncdominie.bsky.social on this day, the Feast of St Kentigern, Glasgow's own: "Have a blessed St Kentigern's Day, and try not to decapitate any sheep." 🙏😬🐦🌳🔔🐟

Cheers for this! 👍🐦🌳🔔🐟

A spherical Mauchline-ware pen (or flower stem) holder, painted with the coat of arms of the City of Glasgow

Paging @glasgowcoa.bsky.social www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...

Photo of a small silver Glasgow style coat of arms brooch alongside a shield-shaped patch with embroidered CoA

They know me so well! 😋🎁🐦🌳🔔🐟 #Glasgow

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Book cover - Index Catalogue of the Pollokshields District Library published by GlasgowCorporation Public Libraries. Price states four pence for the paper cover edition and eight pence in cloth. Features a formal Glasgow coat of arms.

A gem of a find on the Internet Archive! My childhood library's Index Catalogue from 1909 📚🐦🌳🔔🐟
I was interested to see the hygiene notes therein having watched someone slurping their way through a library book on the train during covid 😷

Nope, @imperfectproduct.bsky.social, mysterious tho it is, that's *not* the mystery #Southside CoA! 🕵‍♂️🐦🌳🔔🐟

This bit of my exhibition highlights that no two takes on the same coat of arms are identical - in this case the painted glass in Govanhill Baths. It totally depends on what the viewer brings to the picture. Today I clocked the exact same one in the 'Old Govanhill' book! 🏊‍♂️🐦🌳🔔🐟