Not on display

School Badge

about 1901 (made)

School badge of St Leonards School, St Andrews, Fife. The badge is
elliptical, and made of navy blue ribbon fabric woven with the school
crest of a red shield with two lions rampant flanking a tudor rose gules
on a chevron argent, superimposed on a saltire argent with a
mitre or and the motto "AD VITAM". Around the border are the words
"St Leonards School St Andrews, Fife Founded 1877".

Object details

Categories
Children & Childhood
Education & Learning
Children's Clothes
Scotland
Object type
School badge
Materials and techniques
Woven ribbon fabric
Brief description
for St Leonard's School, St. Andrews, Fife; Scottish, about 1901
Physical description
School badge of St Leonards School, St Andrews, Fife. The badge is
elliptical, and made of navy blue ribbon fabric woven with the school
crest of a red shield with two lions rampant flanking a tudor rose gules
on a chevron argent, superimposed on a saltire argent with a
mitre or and the motto "AD VITAM". Around the border are the words
"St Leonards School St Andrews, Fife Founded 1877".
DimensionsHeight: 7.15 cm Width 2: 3.8 cm
Object history
References:


Worn by the donor's mother, Margaret McQueen Hamilton (born 1890), who attended the school from 1896, beginning with the junior establishment, St Catherine's.
Production
Scotland
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
B.48-1993

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Record createdApril 19, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O37817/school-badge/
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