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Area council: [[Dumfries and Galloway]]
Area council: [[Dumfries and Galloway]]


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[[File:Kirkcudbrightcc.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]  


====Official blazon====  
===Official blazon===  
Azure, a lymphad with sails furled Argent, in the stern Saint Cuthbert seated, holding on his knees the head of the martyr Saint Oswald, all Proper.
Azure, a lymphad with sails furled Argent, in the stern Saint Cuthbert seated, holding on his knees the head of the martyr Saint Oswald, all Proper.


Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or.
Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or.


====Origin/meaning====
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were officially granted on March 21, 1997.
The arms were officially granted on March 21, 1997.


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[[Literature]] :  1974, 2001
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]:  
  1974, 2001


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ROYAL BURGH OF KIRKCUDBRIGHT AND DISTRICT (Community Council)

Area council: Dumfries and Galloway

Coat of arms (crest) of Royal Burgh of Kirkcudbright and District

Official blazon

Azure, a lymphad with sails furled Argent, in the stern Saint Cuthbert seated, holding on his knees the head of the martyr Saint Oswald, all Proper.

Above the Shield is placed a Coronet appropriate to a statutory Community Council, videlicet:- a circlet richly chased from which are issuant four thistle leaves (one and two halves visible) and four pine cones (two visible) Or.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on March 21, 1997.

The arms area the Kirkcudbright burgh arms with a coronet of a community council.


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