The University of the South (Sewanee)

 
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22 July 2014 10:54
 

I wanted to share with the forum the arms of my graduate school, The University of the South—affectionately called Sewanee.  The university is cooperatively owned by 28 dioceses of The Episcopal Church, mainly located in the southeast.  The images and blazons are taken from Dr. James Waring McCrady’s article in the "Sewanee News," March 1983, pages 29-30.  McCrady, I believe, was the main designer behind the university’s arms.  The link to the second page of the article is below.  As beautiful as these arms are, sadly, they never rooted themselves in the hearts of the students, faculty, and alumni.  The seal of the university, much beloved as it is, gets all the attention at Sewanee.  I’ll let McCrady’s words tell the story.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o4PAWmV92eU/U5CWr1ZZ4HI/AAAAAAAADrc/_NUxiszwKjg/s1600/scoa1.bmp

 

Arms: Purpure, a cross pall or overall a double tressure long-crossed and counterchanged;

 

Crest: Out of the coronet of a vidame, a dove holding in its beak an olive branch proper;

 

Supporters:  Dexter, a mountain goat argent; sinister, a heraldic tiger or;

 

Motto:  Ecce Quam Bonum.  "Behold How Good!" taken from Psalm 133: 1: "Ecce Quam Bonum Et Quam Iucundum Habitare Fratres In Unum." or "Behold How Good and Joyful a Thing it is for Brethren to Dwell Together in Unity."

 

Links to the article on my blog:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIwb2Z0vaHg/U5Cr50Mef4I/AAAAAAAADtY/6JCVIDB9F3I/s1600/28-thumb_709.jpg

 

Link to the second page on my blog:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hNgEJaXaKlE/U5Cr7boxQdI/AAAAAAAADtg/8YWHf4Y_CBA/s1600/29-thumb_709.jpg

 
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22 July 2014 11:00
 

My school at Sewanee was the School of Theology.  The arms below come from a painting that proudly hangs in the commons room at Hamilton Hall.  Sadly, again, you cannot find an image of these arms in use other than on the Seminary’s processional banner which is housed inside Chapel of the Apostles and on the altar platform candlesticks inside All Saints’ Chapel.  These arms, just as those of the university, never took hold.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUvBJG-IY9s/U5HI6F3tb1I/AAAAAAAADuM/2OOWp-XK3CQ/s1600/photo+(2).JPG

 

Arms:  Gules, on a cross or surmounted by a Sewanee tressure counterchanged, a fleam sable;

 

Crest: Out of the coronet of a vidame, a dove holding in its beak an olive branch proper (the University’s crest);

 

Motto:  "Pius Doctus Utilis."

 

I think McCrady should have added "crossed fleam" in the blazon.

 
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22 July 2014 13:07
 

It’s too bad the arms never caught on.  The Sewanee campus is a perfect setting for traditional medieval heraldry.

 
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23 July 2014 16:55
 

They are quite nice arms!

Perhaps if some interested alumni were to commission or provide a number of paintings/carvings/banners/stained glass or whatever of the arms, for display at various points of interest around the college?  Arms not displayed are not likely to take hold; but frequent visual repetition might help…

 
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