On the Wikimedia I found the Arms, Badge and Flag of the Kent School in Kent Connecticut.
How is that cross blazoned?
These do not have any of the usual academic-related charges, like lamps of learning or open books. Very nice.
kimon;66131 wrote:
How is that cross blazoned?
The school arms are based on the arms of one of its founders, a descendant of Thomas Sill.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/l/John-R-Sill/PHOTO/0017photo.html
The cross is a mystery to me since the sinister chief horn is bigger. Perhaps it starts: a cross sarcelly….
Michael Swanson;66133 wrote:
The school arms are based on the arms of one of its founders, a descendant of Thomas Sill.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/l/John-R-Sill/PHOTO/0017photo.html
The cross is a mystery to me since the sinister chief horn is bigger. Perhaps it starts: a cross sarcelly….
Here is the presentation announcement: http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Newsletter/014.htm
I’m not sure how to blazon the cross, but it looks to me as if it were meant to constitute a Christogram—a variant on the Chi Rho in which the chi is made into a cross. Perhaps: "a cross moline the sinster chief point extended to form the letter Rho."
As rho is represented as P, it seems that the hook would touch back on the cross if so blazoned. Something such as a cross moline the sinister hook on the arm facing chief extended out could suffice.
Michael Swanson;66134 wrote:
Here is the presentation announcement: http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Newsletter/014.htm
No Blazon was included however.
This is somewhat discouraging. Unless I’m seriously mistaken, Kent School has used these arms for years—I know I have them in my notes I believe were taken well before 2007, and they’re on a list of prep school arms I put together at least five years ago:
*Kent School, Kent, Conn. (1906) – Argent a fess engrailed Azure fretty Or between in chief a lion passant and in base a cross moline, the upper sinister hook extended to form the letter rho, both Gules.
It’s too bad the people running the school, or some alumni, or someone, apparently thought they needed to run to London for validation.