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[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center| | [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
'''Arms''': Argent, a saltire gules surmounted by a sword erect counterchanged between a covered cup and a hind lodged pierced with an arrow in fesse of the second. <br> | '''Arms''': Argent, a saltire gules surmounted by a sword erect counterchanged between a covered cup and a hind lodged pierced with an arrow in fesse of the second. <br> | ||
'''Crest''': On a wreath of the colours, A figure representing St. Margaret, vested gules, in the dexter hand a pearl, and in the sinister a palm branch, both proper, at her feet a dragon couchant reguardant argent. <br> | '''Crest''': On a wreath of the colours, A figure representing St. Margaret, vested gules, in the dexter hand a pearl, and in the sinister a palm branch, both proper, at her feet a dragon couchant reguardant argent. <br> | ||
'''Motto''': Damus plus quam pollicemur | '''[[:Category:Mottoes all|Motto]]''': Damus plus quam pollicemur | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The arms were officially granted on November 30, 1911. | The arms were officially granted on November 30, 1911. | ||
The saltire is taken from the | The saltire is taken from the arms of the Borough of [[Holborn]] in which the Head Office of the Company is situated. In the Holborn Arms it refers to the Churches of St. George the Martyr, and St. George, Bloomsbury, both in the Borough. The sword is taken from the [[London]] City Arms, the Sword of St. Paul, signifying the nature of his death. The wounded hind is also from the Borough Arms referring to St. Giles-in-the-Fields, an allusion to the legend that St. Giles (St. Aegidus) received the injury which crippled him while saving a hind from the huntsman. | ||
The covered cup refers to the Borough of [[Stepne]]y, whose patron Saint is St. Dunstan. It was in Stepney that the Company had its first place of business at Denmark House, Commercial Street. St. Dunstan was a famous Saint in the Middle Ages, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey and later Archbishop of Canterbury. He was an expert worker in metal and invented the famous peg tankard, a device that a man might know how much he had drunk and so be warned against excess. | The covered cup refers to the Borough of [[Stepne]]y, whose patron Saint is St. Dunstan. It was in Stepney that the Company had its first place of business at Denmark House, Commercial Street. St. Dunstan was a famous Saint in the Middle Ages, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey and later Archbishop of Canterbury. He was an expert worker in metal and invented the famous peg tankard, a device that a man might know how much he had drunk and so be warned against excess. | ||
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[[Literature]] : image from https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/ ; Lawson, 1954 | [[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: | ||
image from https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/ ; Lawson, 1954 | |||
[[Category:Corporate heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Corporate heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1944]] | [[Category:Granted 1944]] | ||