St Michael at Linlithgow

The Lord Lyon attended the unveiling of the Alan B. Herriot sculpture of St Michael in Linlithgow organized by the Linlithgow Burgh Trust on the 9th March. The plinth marks the 1673 grant of arms. At the ceremony it was remarked by way of solidarity that St Michael was the Patron Saint of Kyiv.

Like the Royal Burghs of Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy and Montrose, Linlithgow recorded two coats of arms from the two sides of its burgh seal in 1673: the famous Greyhound Bitch Sable and the sacred side, St Michael the Archangel defeating the dragon, sharing the saint with Kyiv.

The 2017 matriculation to the Linithgow and Linlithgow Bridge Community Council combines both coats, the royal arms held by the saint now replaced by the greyhound Sable and the tree.