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'''Country''' :
* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]]
** Scotland<br><br>
'''Incorporated into''':<br>
* 1975 [[North East Fife]] District Council
** 1996 [[Fife]] Area Council
'''Status''':<br>
* <1975 Burgh
* since ?? Community Council
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''' PITTENWEEM'''
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Incorporated into : 1975 [[North East Fife]] District Council (1996 [[Fife]] Area Council)
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* (Burgh) Azure, in the sea a galley with her oars in action Argent, and therein standing the figure of Saint Adrian with long garments close girt, and a mitre on his head Proper, holding in his sinister hand a crosier Or; on the stern a flag disveloped Argent, charged with the Royal Arms of Scotland. With this Word "Deo Duce".
===Official blazon===
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Azure, in the sea a galley with her oars in action Argent, and therein standing the figure of Saint Adrian with long garments close girt, and a mitre on his head Proper, holding in his sinister hand a crosier Or; on the stern a flag disveloped Argent, charged with the Royal Arms of Scotland.
 
With this Word "Deo Duce".


===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were granted on August 2, 1673.
The arms were granted on ? to the Community Council. The former Burgh arms were granted on August 2, 1673.


Pittenweem was created de novo a Burgh of Barony of the Prior of Pitten­weem in 1526 and was made a Royal Burgh by King James V in 1541.
Pittenweem was created de novo a Burgh of Barony of the Prior of Pitten­weem in 1526 and was made a Royal Burgh by King James V in 1541.
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The Latin motto "With God as leader" seems to refer to the Saint's journeys and his missionary enterprises.
The Latin motto "With God as leader" seems to refer to the Saint's journeys and his missionary enterprises.


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|align="center"|[[File:Pittenweemseal.jpg|350 px|center|seal of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
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===Image gallery===
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File:Pittenweem.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Pittenweem|The Burgh arms
File:Pittenweemseal.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Pittenweem|Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
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[https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/bibliography '''Literature''']: Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974
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[[Literature]] : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974


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Latest revision as of 08:21, 26 April 2025

Arms (crest) of Pittenweem
PITTENWEEM

Country :

  • United Kingdom
    Unitedkingdom-flag.gif
    • Scotland

Incorporated into:

Status:

  • <1975 Burgh
  • since ?? Community Council


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Official blazon
English
  • (Burgh) Azure, in the sea a galley with her oars in action Argent, and therein standing the figure of Saint Adrian with long garments close girt, and a mitre on his head Proper, holding in his sinister hand a crosier Or; on the stern a flag disveloped Argent, charged with the Royal Arms of Scotland. With this Word "Deo Duce".

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on ? to the Community Council. The former Burgh arms were granted on August 2, 1673.

Pittenweem was created de novo a Burgh of Barony of the Prior of Pitten­weem in 1526 and was made a Royal Burgh by King James V in 1541.

The arms repeat the device on an old seal of the Burgh of which a sixteenth­ century impression is on record. They show St. Adrian, the martyr of the May, on his hazardous sea journey to Scotland from Pannonia in Hungary. He established a community on the Isle of May, off the Fife coast, became a missionary to the Picts and is said to have been slain on the May about 870 during a Danish invasion.
St. Adrian is connected with Pittenweem, as a convent there was joined to the May community, and about the twelfth century monks from the May moved to Pittenweem to be nearer their property on the mainland. They built a priory and the town grew up around it.

The Latin motto "With God as leader" seems to refer to the Saint's journeys and his missionary enterprises.

The Communicty Council uses the historical arms, with the now common crown for a Community Council

Image gallery

  • Arms (crest) of Pittenweem

    The Burgh arms

  • Arms (crest) of Pittenweem

    Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s

Literature: Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974

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