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'''[[:Category:Institutional heraldry|Institutional Heraldry]] of the World''': | |||
* United Kingdom [[File:unitedkingdom-flag.gif|60 px|right]] | |||
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'''Arms''' : Per fess Or and azure, a fess wavy per fess wavy azure and argent, in chief three roses gules and in base a garb Or. <br> | '''Arms''': Per fess Or and azure, a fess wavy per fess wavy azure and argent, in chief three roses gules and in base a garb Or. <br> | ||
'''Crest''': On a wreath of the colours, On a rock in front of a fountain, a cormorant wings addorsed proper, beaked and legged gules, in the beak a branch of laver proper. <br> | '''Crest''': On a wreath of the colours, On a rock in front of a fountain, a cormorant wings addorsed proper, beaked and legged gules, in the beak a branch of laver proper. <br> | ||
'''Supporters''': On the dexter side a figure representing Neptune mantled vert, and on the sinister side a lion guardant Or murally crowned and charged on the shoulder with a rose gules barbed and seeded proper. <br> | '''Supporters''': On the dexter side a figure representing Neptune mantled vert, and on the sinister side a lion guardant Or murally crowned and charged on the shoulder with a rose gules barbed and seeded proper. <br> | ||
'''[[:Category:Mottoes all|Motto]]''': Vita ex aqua venit | '''[[:Category:Mottoes all|Motto]]''': Vita ex aqua venit | ||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
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The catchment areas of these two rivers comprises of parts of the counties of Cheshire (represented by the gold wheatsheaf on a blue background) and Lancashire (represented by the three red roses), and the Mersey enters the Irish Sea at Liverpool (represented by the black liver bird in the crest). | The catchment areas of these two rivers comprises of parts of the counties of Cheshire (represented by the gold wheatsheaf on a blue background) and Lancashire (represented by the three red roses), and the Mersey enters the Irish Sea at Liverpool (represented by the black liver bird in the crest). | ||
[[Literature]] : Image by Jarek Bien | [[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: | ||
Image by Jarek Bien | |||
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[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1965]] | [[Category:Granted 1965]] | ||