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| The Rougemont Hotel on Queen Street, Exeter, Devon, England. It was built in 1877-79 and owned by the Devon and Exeter Hotel Company (Limited), but has changed ownership a number of times since.
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| [[File:Rougemont Hotel Window.png|600px|center|border]]<br/>
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| On the half-landing of the hotel's grand staircase there is a large stained-glass window with two side windows, produced by Frederick Drake (1838-1920). The large window, known as the ''Shakespeare Window'', contains a scene from Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' which contains a reference to Exeter's Rougemont Castle. The quotation, spoken by Richard, is writen underneath the scene:
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| ''When last I was at Exeter,<br/>
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| ''The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,<br/>
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| ''And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,<br/>
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| ''Because a bard of Ireland told me once<br/>
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| ''I should not live long after I saw Richmond.''
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| Above the scene is the royal escutcheon of the United Kingdom ensigned by the royal crown, and below it are the arms of the diocese of Exeter and Exeter Corporation (now Exeter City Council).
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| Each of the side windows contains four shields. These are the arms of the directors of the Devon and Exeter Hotel Company at the time the hotel was built:
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| ====Shakespeare window====
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Rougemont Hotel royal arms.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of the United Kingdom from 1837.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Royal arms of the United Kingdom'''
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| <p>The present version of the royal arms was adopted on the accession to the throne of Queen Victoria in 1837, with the removal of the central escutcheon of Hanover. The arms in the window are ensigned by the royal drown and encircled by the Order of the Garter.</p> | |
| <p><span style=font-size:smaller;">'''''Blazon''''': Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (''England''); 2nd, Or, a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules (''Scotland''); 3rd, Azure, a harp or stringed argent (''Ireland'').</span></p>
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Rougemont Hotel Diocese of Exeter arms.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of the Diocese of Exeter.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Diocese of Exeter'''
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| <p>The diocesan arms in this form have been in use since the Middle Ages.</p>
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| <p><span style="font-size:smaller;">'''''Blazon''''': Gules, a sword erect in pale argent, hilted or, surmounted of two keys addorsed in saltire, wards in chief, of the last.</span></p>
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Rougemont Hotel City of Exeter arms.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of the City of Exeter.png|90px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''City of Exeter'''
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| <p>The arms of Exeter were granted to the corporation by Queen Elizabeth I in 15??.</p>
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| <p><span style="font-size:smaller;">'''''Blazon''''': Per pale gules and sable, a castle triangular and triple-towered or.</span></p>
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| ====Left window====
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| | rowspan=4 | [[File:Rougement Hotel left window.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Fulford.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | {{wpl|Great Fulford|'''Francis Drummond Fulford'''}} (1831-1907)<br/>of Great Fulford.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Gules, a chevron argent.
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Snow of Exeter.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''E.M. Snow'''<br/>of The Quarries, Exeter.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Per fess nebuly, three antelopes' heads erased counterchanged, armed or.
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Follett of Exeter.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Charles J Follett'''<br/>of Polsloe House, Exeter.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Barry of twelve gules and argent, a bend sable, a mullet for difference.
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Gidley of Exeter.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''B C Gidley'''<br/>of Barnfield, Exeter.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Or, a castle sable, a bordure of the second bezantée.
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| ====Right window====
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Moore-Stevens.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | {{wpl|John Moore-Stevens (MP)|'''John Curzon Moore-Stevens'''}} (1818–1903)<br/>of Winscott.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Quarterly 1st & 4th, Per chevron argent and gules, in chief two falcons rising proper, belled or (''Stevens''); 2nd and 3rd, Sable, a swan argent membered or within a bordure quarterly or and ermine (''Moore'').<br/>
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| <small>''The Moore arms are blazoned from the image. Burke's General Armory gives different variations, e.g. a bordure engrailed.''</small>
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Gordon of Wiscombe Park.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''Charles Gordon''' (1817-1878)<br/>of Wiscombe Park.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Three boars' heads coupled within a double tressure flowered and counter-flowered alternately with roses, thistles and fleurs-de-lys or.<br/>
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| <small>''These are the arms of the earls of Aberdeen. Charles Gordon was descended from an illegitimate son of the 3rd earl and so not properly entitled to use them. Blazons for the double tressure vary, some omitting the roses or fleurs-de-lys. It is not clear from the image which variation is represented.''</small>
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Dymond of Exeter.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''R. Dymond'''<br/>of Mount Radford, Exeter.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Argent, five fusils gules, each charged with a fleur-de-lys or, conjoined in fess between three mullets sable, two and one.
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| | style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;" | [[File:Escutcheon of Drew of Powderham.png|100px]]
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | '''John Drew'''<br/>of Powderham.
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| | style="vertical-align:top;" | Ermine, a lion passant gules.
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| ==Sources==
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| *Burke, Sir Bernard. [https://archive.org/details/generalarmoryofe00burk ''The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales ...''] London: Harrison, 1884.
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| *''Devon and Exeter Gazette'', Thursday, 5 Apr 1877. Page 3.
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| *''The Western Times'', Friday, 31 Dec 1875. Page 6.
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| *''The Western Times'', Wednesday, 19 Mar 1879. Page 3.
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| *''The Western Times'', Wednesday, Aug 07, 1907, Page 4.
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| </small>
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