Ripon

	RIPON Country : United Kingdom England Incorporated into: 1974 Harrogate 2023 North Yorkshire Status: City Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":54.1359800000000035424818634055554866790771484375,"lon":-1.5239499999999999158006858124281279742717742919921875,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
English	Gules, a gold bugle horn with the letters R I P P O N disposed about the bow in which the strings are tied.

Origin/meaning

The arms were never officially granted, the image above is the design generally used, however the colours have changed during the years. Often the arms are also shown with a spur as a crest, see images below.

The horn appears to have been used from centuries as the symbol of Ripon, but the spur was introduced at the early 20^th century, probably to signify the trade of spur-making for which the city was famous in the Middle Ages. The horn refers to the Charter horn (when rights were conferred upon the City as a community in a.d. 886) and this Charter horn is carried attached to the baldrick which is worn by the Sergeant-at-Mace, who precedes the Mayor with the Mace on all ceremonial occasions. The Charter horn was never a blowing horn, but the custom of blowing a horn at the four corners of the Market Cross and in front of the Wakeman's (Mayor's) house at 9 p.m. each evening has been carried out for hundreds of years.

The horn and spur are still used by the city council as a logo, but not placed in a shield.

Image gallery

The arms shown in 1845
The arms on a JaJa card +/- 1905
The arms on a postcard +/- 1910
The arms on crested china +/- 1905-1915
The arms on crested china +/- 1905-1915
The arms on crested china +/- 1905-1915
The arms on crested china +/- 1905-1915

Literature: Scott-Giles, 1953

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