Rougement Hotel, Exeter

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.

On the half-landing of the hotel's grand staircase there is a large stained-glass window with two side windows. 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:

When last I was at Exeter,
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,
And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,
Because a bard of Ireland told me once
I should not live long after I saw Richmond.

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).

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:

Left window

Arms	Person	Blazon
	F.T. Fulford	Gules, a chevron argent.
	E.M. Snow	Per fess nebuly, three antelopes' heads erased counterchanged, armed or.
	Charles J Follett	Barry of twelve gules and argent, a bend sable, a mullet for difference.
	B C Gidley	Or, a castle sable, a border of the second bezantée.

Right window

Arms	Person	Blazon
	John Curzon Moore-Stevens
	Charles Gordon (1817-1878)
	R. Dymond
	John Drew