Co-operative Permanent Building Society
CO-OPERATIVE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY (since 1970 Nationwide Building Society)
Official blazon
Arms: Per chevron azure and Or, in chief on a rock proper a castle triple-towered gold, and in base a dragon couchant, wings lifted and addorsed, gules.
Crest: On a wreath of the colours, Four keys, wards upwards and outwards, in saltire Or en: filed by a chaplet of daffodils proper, roses gules, and thistles and shamrocks also proper.
Supporters: On either side a cockatrice argent, combed wattled and armed gules, each gorged with a collar Or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon barry wavy of ten also argent and azure.
Motto: Step by step
Origin/meaning
The arms were officially granted on September 27, 1954.
We have no information on the meaning or origin of these arms.
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The arms on a building(source) |
Literature : image from https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/