Image: The Hendre Cedar Library Window

Description: Rolls heraldic window, the Cedar Library, The Hendre, Monmouthshire, seat of the Rolls family. Arms as follows: Top row, left to right: Royal arms of Queen Victoria Azure, three chevrons or overall a fess gules (Unknown family) Arms of John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807-1870) of The Hendre, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, who married Elizabeth Long, daughter of Walter Long (1788-1871) of Preshaw (son of John Long of Preshaw (1728-1797) by his wife Ellen Trenchard (1745-1788), daughter of Robert Hippisley Trenchard of Stanton Fitzwarren, Wiltshire[1]) by his wife Mary Carnegie (1789–1875), eldest daughter of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk. His only son was John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock. Arms: Rolls of 4 quarters (see below) impaling Long of 4 quarters (see below). Azure, a lymphad/ship or (Unknown, with initials "MV") Royal arms of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria) Middle row, left to right: Herbert (Earl of Pembroke), with initial "V" above Rolls of 4 quarters: 1&4: Rolls 2:Coysh: Gules, an eagle displayed barry of six erminois and azure. w:Sarah Coysh (c. 1742 – 1801) was the heiress to the estates of the Coysh, Allen, and James families. Her marriage to John Rolls (1735–1801) illustrates one of the methods by which the renowned Rolls family of Monmouthshire, Wales, and London, England, accumulated and improved their properties and advanced their social rank during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By 1830, her son John Rolls of The Hendre in Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire, near Monmouth, had made the estate his country seat and undertaken the first of several expansions of the mansion. By 1892, two expansions later, his grandson John A Rolls had been elevated to the peerage and had become Baron Llangattock of The Hendre. Lord Llangattock's son was Charles Stewart Rolls, future aviation pioneer and co-founder of Rolls-Royce. 3: Argent, a saltire between two leopard's faces in pale and two crosses flory in fess sable (unknown, possibly a Coysh heiress) Crest of Rolls Long of 4 quarters: 1&4: Long of Long of South Wraxall and Draycot Cerne in Wiltshire: Sable semée of cross-crosslets, a lion rampant argent 2: Trenchard, quarterly of 4: 1&4 Trenchard ( Per pale dexter paly of six argent and sable sinister azure) 2&3: Sable, three mullets pierced in bend between two bendlets or, Hippisley of Ston Easton, Somerset 3: Argent, a greyhound courant sable on a chief dancetee of the second three plates Carnegie, inscribed Trafalgar Bottom row, left to right: Gules, two bars or, with initial "H" above A supporter dexter: A lion sable charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon of Maclean: Argent, a rock gules Maclean of Duart and Morven, of 4 quarters Arms of John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837-1912) of The Hendre, who married Georgiana Marcia Maclean, a daughter of Sir Charles Maclean, 9th Baronet (1798–1883) of Morvaren. Arms: Rolls of 4 quarters impaling Maclean of Duart and Morven, of 4 quarters: 1: Argent, a rock gules 2: Argent, a dexter hand fesswise couped gules holding a cross-crosslet fitchée in pale azure 3: Or, a lymphad oars in saltire and sails furled sable pennoned gules 4: Argent a salmon naiant proper in chief two eagle's heads respectant gules A supporter sinister: A lion or semee of ... sable, charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon of a Maclean quartering Or, a lymphad oars in saltire and sails furled sable pennoned gules Maclean of 4 quarters, as above.
Title: The Hendre Cedar Library Window
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