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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM

Country: United Kingdom
Campus/location : Birmingham

Official blazon

Arms : Per chevron gules and Or, a chevronel sable between in chief two plates, the dexter charged. with a garb of wheat and the sinister with a boar's head couped proper, and in base between two sprigs of bay also proper tied with a riband a flame of fire gules.
Crest: On a wreath Or and azure, Out of a mural crown Or, a dexter arm embowed, vested argent, the hand grasping a cornucopia inverted also proper.

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted to the Birmingham College of Food and Domestic Arts on September 20, 1962. Renamed as Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies in the 1980s and to University College Birmingham in 2007. The supporters were granted on August 3, 2015.

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