The Heraldry Centre

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Introduction
Issued in 1990, Banbury was one of the first seven models. In the early years Hazle sometimes combined features from several buildings as she did here.
Heraldic shields are similarly painted between beams in both St George’s Hall and Chapel at Windsor Castle.

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Hazle Ceramics
The Heraldry Centre
Limited Painting of 80
on Banbury

 Marilyn finds a gated entrance in Bridge Street. The gable and right door seem to be from here.
 In Parsons Street The Reindeer Inn has gates dated 1570 and the model’s dormer window. Cromwell had a base at this inn during the English Civil War (1642-1651). Marilyn can be seen calling Hazle.

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 Coats of arms have a shield over the motto, flanked by two supporters. Above the shield is the helmet, with a wreath and crest.

Heraldry
A “coat of arms” was once a cloth coat over armour, with arms sewn in to distinguish friend from foe. The shield is the most important part. By the late 1300s heralds compiled armorial records, now at Her Majesty’s College of Arms. Today heralds assist with ceremonies and help assign new arms to eminent people and organisations.

Canterbury’s Heraldry Centre has shields on the wall. 

 The Fyne Lady who rides a White Horse to Banbury Cross in the nursery rhyme may be Celia Fiennes, who rode across each county in the 1600s and wrote of her travels.