City Coat Of Arms At Fishmarket Entrance – Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
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dtrebilc
N 54° 58.069 W 001° 36.537
30U E 589051 N 6092095
This coat of arms of the City of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne is above the entrance to the old fish market.
Waymark Code: WMJ6T6
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/03/2013
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The Fish Market, an English Heritage Grade II Listed Building, was built between 1878 and 1880 to a design by city engineer A.M. Fowler.
The Newcastle city council
website tells us the history of the arms.
"The City's Coat of Arms was in use as long ago as the fourteenth century but was not made official by the College of Arms until 1954.
The castle motif goes back to earliest times. Originally the town took its name from the "New Castle" built by order of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, in 1080 and a castle was depicted on the twelfth century common seal. The earliest surviving example of the three silver castles on a red shield, dating from about 1400, is in the window on the north side of the Chancel in St. John's Church. The castle motif is repeated in the crest which is a golden lion atop a silver castle. He is holding the golden staff of St. George's pennon. The castle stands upon a wreath of red and white leaves above a fifteenth century style helmet. The supporters, two mythical sea-horses shaded in green with gold manes, fins and tails, are a reminder that Newcastle is a seaport. Both the supporters and crest were added to the shield by grant of William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, in 1575. The motto, 'Fortiter Defendit Triumphans' ('Triumphing by Brave Defence') was adopted during the Civil War, following the stubborn defence of the town against the Scots in 1644."