Lossiemouth and Branderburgh

LOSSIEMOUTH AND BRANDERBURGH Country: United Kingdom England Incorporated into: 1975 Moray Area council 1996 Moray District council Status: (< 1975) Borough since ? Community council Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":57.72240000000000037516656448133289813995361328125,"lon":-3.28160000000000007247535904753021895885467529296875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Origin/meaning

The burgh never recorded arms, but used a seal as shown below.

The seal illustrates the legend of the town's patron saint, St. Gerardine, who is said to have walked along the shore at nights bearing a lantern to warn ships off the dangerous rocks; today the promontory by the harbour is still called Halliman (Holy Man) Point and the rocks to the West, Halliman Skerries. The seal bears the motto "Per noctem lux".

The image of the seal was sometimes used as arms, but these were never recorded.

Image gallery

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  Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s

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  The arms as used on a JaJa postcard +/- 1905

Literature: Porteous, 1906

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