West window in interior of Shrewsbury Abbey. The stained glass dates from 1814, when Revd. William Gorsuch Rowland, Curate at the Church of the Holy Cross and St Giles in Shrewsbury between 1793 and 1825 (later Vicar of St Mary’s Church in Shrewsbury from 1828 until his death in 1851), "filled the great west window at the Abbey with arms taken from the description of coats of arms in the church found in Dugdale’s 1663 Visitation of Shropshire, at Rowland’s instigation and expense, and the other windows of the church were ‘embellished with painted glass by the indefatigable exertions of the same benefactor’. (Source: www.vidimus.org[1]). For detailed images see photos by groenling on flickr [2]

For heraldry see: Hugh Owen and John Brickdale Blakeway, A History of Shrewsbury, Vol.II, London, 1825, pp.77-80[3] 9 rows, top to bottom, left to right:

• 1:
  • 1: Gules, a fesse between six crosses crosslet or (Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, (c.1313-1369), KG)
  • 2: Royal arms of King Edward III differenced by a bordure argent (arms of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Buckingham, 1st Earl of Essex, KG (1355-1397), 5th surviving son of King Edward III of England;
  • 3: Royal arms of King Edward III
  • 4: Royal arms of King Edward III differenced by a label of three points argent each charged with three spots of ermine (arms of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 4th but 3rd surviving son of King Edward III)
  • 5: Royal arms of King Edward III differenced by a label of three points argent each charged with three torteaux (label "charged with three castles" per Owen and Blakeway) (arms of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 4th surviving son of King Edward III):
  • 6: Or, a chevron gules (Stafford) Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford (1301–1372)

• 2:
  • 1: Gules fretty or
  • 2: Or, three chevrons gules (de Clare, Earl of Gloucester)
  • 3: Azure, a lion rampant or
  • 4: Barry of ten argent and azure ?

• 3:
  • 1: Mortimer
  • 2: FitzAlan quartering de Warenne

• 4:
  • 1: Argent, three lozenges in fess gules
  • 2: Boteler, of Oversley and Wem, Shropshire, w:Baron Boteler (cr.1308): Gules, a fess counter compony or and sable between six crosses-crosslet argent
  • 3: Ufford: Sable, a cross engrailed or
  • 4: Azure, on a bend sinister argent three ... sable

• 5:
  • 1: Chequy or and azure (de Warenne)
  • 2: Belleme: Azure a lion rampant and a bordure or Attributed arms of w:Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (c. 1052 – after 1130)
  • 3: Belleme: Azure a lion rampant and a bordure or Attributed arms of w:Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (c. 1052 – after 1130)
  • 4: Belleme: Azure a lion rampant and a bordure or Attributed arms of w:Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (c. 1052 – after 1130)
  • 5: Azure, three garbs or Arms adopted by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester (died 1232)
  • 6: Argent, a lion rampant sable

• 6:
  • 1: Royal arms
  • 2: or, a lion rampant sable (Stapleton) Sir w:Miles Stapleton of Bedale (c.1320–1364), KG
  • 3: Argent, two lions passant in pale gules (Strange (of Blackmere, Shropshire))
  • 4: Gules, two lions passant in pale argent (Strange (of Knokyn, Shropshire))
  • 5: Lisle of Kingston Lisle, Berkshire
  • 6: Mortimer
  • 7: FitzAlan quartering de Warenne
  • 8: Royal arms
  • 9: Gules, a lion rampant or quartering Sable fretty or Arms of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, 2nd Baron Maltravers (1364-1390), of Buckland, Surrey, the son and heir of John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel by his wife Eleanor Maltravers, the grand-daughter and eventual heiress of John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers: FitzAlan quartering Maltravers
  • 10: Or, a raven sable (Corbet of Caus Castle, Shropshire)
  • 11: Belleme: Azure a lion rampant and a bordure or Attributed arms of w:Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury (c. 1052 – after 1130)
  • 12: Gules, a cross patoncée or
  • 13: Gules, a lion rampant or
  • 14: Barry of six sable and or, on a chief of the last two pallets of the first overall an inescutcheon gules charged with three bars ermine (Burley) impaling Or, a chevron gules (Stafford); (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.148, "arms of Sir Simon Burley, Sir Richard Burley and Sir John Burley, all Knights of the Garter tempore King Richard II" (1377-1399)); Papworth gives the inescutcheon as Barry of six gules and ermine (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.584). Sir Richard de Burley (c.1349-1387), KG, (eldest son of Sir John de Burley and Anne Penbrugge) married Beatrice Stafford, a daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford (1301-1372).
• 7:
  • 1: See of Canterbury impaling arms of William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury 1828-48, Azure, an eagle displayed erminois on the breast a plain cross gules (Howley) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.514)
  • 2: See of Lichfield impaling Azure, a chevron between three covered cups or (Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield 1836-9, headmaster of Shrewsbury School,

• 8:
  • 1: Ermine, on a fess sable a castle triple towered argent on a canton gules a martlet or (Hill ?)
  • 2: Azure, three leopard's heads erased or quartering Or, on a pile gules three crosses crosslet of the first all impaling Azure, a chevron between three covered cups or (Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield 1836-9, headmaster of Shrewsbury School

• 9:
  • 1:
  • 2: Arms of Scott of w:Scot's Hall, Nettlestead, Kent: Argent, three Catherine Wheels sable a bordure (engrailed) gules quartering Argent, three cocks gules