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{{ | {{au}}'''ARMIDALE''' | ||
'''ARMIDALE''' | |||
State : [[New South Wales]]<br> | State : [[New South Wales]]<br> | ||
Incorporated into : 2000 Armidale Dumaresq Shire | Incorporated into: 2000 Armidale Dumaresq Shire | ||
[[File:armidale.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:armidale.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
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'''Arms''' : Or, on a Pile Vert, between two Mitres Gules and in base an open Book proper bound and charged with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded, a Ram's Head caboshed proper.<br> | '''Arms''' : Or, on a Pile Vert, between two Mitres Gules and in base an open Book proper bound and charged with a Rose Gules barbed and seeded, a Ram's Head caboshed proper.<br> | ||
'''Crest''' : On a Wreath of the Colours, on Water Barry Wavy, a Mount, thereon a Tower en circled by a wreath of Waratah fructed all proper.<br> | '''Crest''' : On a Wreath of the Colours, on Water Barry Wavy, a Mount, thereon a Tower en circled by a wreath of Waratah fructed all proper.<br> | ||
'''Motto''' : 'The Fortunes of the House Stand Firm'. | '''[[:Category:Mottoes all|Motto]]''': 'The Fortunes of the House Stand Firm'. | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
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The crest is a tower, representing the Armidale Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland after which the town was named in 1839. The circlet of waratahs (New South Wales state flower) continues the former badge of the city, a single bloom issuing from a coronet. | The crest is a tower, representing the Armidale Castle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland after which the town was named in 1839. The circlet of waratahs (New South Wales state flower) continues the former badge of the city, a single bloom issuing from a coronet. | ||
The motto is an English translation of line 209 from Virgil's fourth Georgic. | The motto is an English translation of line 209 from Virgil's fourth Georgic. '''[[Literature]]''': | ||
{{media}} Puttock, 1988 and Denis Towner (dtowner@midcoast.com.au) | |||
[[Category:Australian municipalities]] | [[Category:Australian municipalities]] | ||
[[Category:New South Wales]] | [[Category:New South Wales]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1964]] | [[Category:Granted 1964]] | ||