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'''Country''' : | |||
* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]] | |||
** Northern Ireland<br><br> | |||
'''Additions''':<br> | |||
* 1974 Antrim RDC (partly) | |||
* Larne RDC | |||
* [[Newtownabbey]] UDC (partly) | |||
'''Status''':<br> | |||
* City and County Borough | |||
<br> | |||
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|'''English''' | |||
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'''Arms''' : Party per fesse argent and azure, in chief a pile vair and on a canton gules a bell argent, in base a ship with sails set argent on waves of the sea proper.<br> | |||
'''Arms''' : Party per | |||
'''Crest''' : On a wreath of the colours, a sea-horse gorged with a mural crown proper.<br> | '''Crest''' : On a wreath of the colours, a sea-horse gorged with a mural crown proper.<br> | ||
'''Supporters''' : Dexter, a wolf proper, ducally gorged and chained or; sinister, a sea-horse gorged with a mural crown proper.<br> | '''Supporters''' : Dexter, a wolf proper, ducally gorged and chained or; sinister, a sea-horse gorged with a mural crown proper.<br> | ||
'''Motto''' : Pro tanto quid retribuamus | '''[[:Category:Mottoes all|Motto]]''': Pro tanto quid retribuamus | ||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms were officially granted on June 30, 1890. | The arms were officially granted on June 30, 1890. | ||
I | The vair-along with the supporting wolf-is taken from the arms of Sir Arthur Chichester, the founder of Belfast as it exists today, who obtained the city's charter from James I in 1613. The ship tells of Belfast's pre-eminence as a seaport, as do the seahorses, and the bell is canting. The motto means "What return shall we make for so much?", and is a paraphrase of a verse from Psalm 116. | ||
The arms were first used on the city's seal, made circa 1640, but were not granted until 1890. | |||
===Image gallery=== | |||
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0> | |||
File:belfast.jj.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME]]|The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905 | |||
File:belfast.wb1.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME]]|The arms on a [[Wills's - Borough arms I|Wills's]] cigarette card, 1906 | |||
File:belfast.haguk.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME]]|The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1925 | |||
| | File:belfast.mit.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms on a [[Mitchell Town Seals|Mitchell's]] cigarette card, 1911 | ||
|} | File:belfast.fau.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms as used on a [[UK Town arms (Faulkner)|Faulkner postcard]] +/- 1905 | ||
File:0948.aba.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms in the [[Abadie]] albums | |||
File:belfast1.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms as seen in the city. | |||
File:belfast2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms on a litter box (image by Francois R. Velde) | |||
File:belfast3.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms as seen in the city (image by Francois R. Velde) | |||
File:belfast4.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms as seen in the city (image by Francois R. Velde) | |||
File:belfast5.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}|The arms as seen in the city (image by Francois R. Velde) | |||
</gallery> | |||
'''[[Literature]]''': Scott-Giles, C.W. : Civic heraldry of England and Wales, London, 1932; Briggs, G. : Civic and corporate heraldry. Heraldry Today, Ramsbury, 1971; Vinycomb, J. : The seals and armorial insignia of corporate and other towns of Ulster, The Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol. 1, 1894, provided by Z. W. Eisler. | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities B]] | [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities B]] | ||
[[Category:Northern Ireland]] | |||
[[Category:Granted 1890]] | [[Category:Granted 1890]] | ||