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UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

Country: United Kingdom
Campus/location : Durham

Official blazon

Argent, a Cross patee quadrate Gules; a Canton Azure, charged with a Chevron Or between three Lions rampant of the first.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on May 18, 1843.

The cross is the cross of St. Cuthbert, the patron of Durham, and the Cathedral (which founded the university) was built as his shrine.

Colleges

• College of the Venerable Bede
• College of St Hild and St Bede
• Collingwood College
• Grey College
• Hatfield College
• John Snow College
• Josephine Butler College College
• St Aidan's College
• St Chad's College
• St Hild's College
• St John's College
• St Mary's College
• St Cuthbert's Society
• Stephenson College
• University College
• Trevelyan College
• Ustinov College
• Van Mildert College

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