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BLAIRGOWRIE AND RATTRAY
Burgh
Incorporated into : 1975 Perth and Kinross District Council (1996 Perth and Kinross Area Council)
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.
 Seal of Blairgowrie as used in the 1890s |
 Seal of Rattray as used in the 1890s |
Community Council
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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Literature : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974, 1979, 2001