A visitor was expected to recognise the family by its heraldry, not by reading a label. That’s why these panels feel so anonymous now. The meaning was obvious to the people who lived here, and it has slipped away with time.

A visitor was expected to recognise the family by its heraldry, not by reading a label. That’s why these panels feel so anonymous now. The meaning was obvious to the people who lived here, and it has slipped away with time.