Diocesan Logo, Bishop Photographs ...

Thursday 27th February 2003

Photographs : Diocesan Logos and Crest / Church of England Logos More photographs available on request. These images may be freely distributed and published but must include: © Oxford Diocesan Publications Ltd. The Bishop of Oxford The Rt. Revd. John Pritchard   Photo : Philip Hind Photo: Philip Hind       Photo: Paul Judson Photo: Frank Blackwell   See the Bishop's Pages for more pictures The Bishop of Reading The Rt. Revd. Stephen Cottrell   Photo: Philip Hind Photo: Philip Hind   750x1000 JPG JPG 960x1280   The Bishop of Buckingham The Rt Revd Alan Wilson     Photo: Frank Blackwell     JPG 1181 x 1524     The Bishop of Dorchester The Rt Revd Colin Fletcher OBE       Photo: Frank Blackwell     JPG 600 x 797     Logos (Some files may be compressed - ZIP) Diocese of Oxford Church of England EPS : Illustrator : TIFF : PCX : GIF 450x608 EPS : 450x608 GIF : 1339x1789 PCX : 1339x1811 TIFF 131x57 GIF : 131x57 JPG 538x374 EPS : 1575x1181 PCX : 1575x1181 TIFF : 1575x1181 GIF 125x155 GIF 538x373 EPS : 538x373 PCX : 538x373 TIFF : 538x373 GIF GIF 604x125 EPS : 1811x472 PCX : 1811x472 TIFF : 1811x472 GIF Arms of the Diocese 696 x 1294 JPG Description Curiosity is sometimes expressed about the coat of arms of the diocese, which is unusual. The full blazon is: "Sable, a fess argent, between in chief three ladies, couped at the breasts, vested argent and crowned or and in base an ox argent, armed or, passing over a ford barry wavy argent and azure." The lower part of the shield indubitably reflects that of the City. It has been suggested that the female heads represent St Frideswide and her patrons St Cecilia and St Catherine. One author has conjectured that they may originally have been male heads, representing the royal founders of the University, but there seems to be no positive evidence for this. The story that Bishop Strong once described the shield as---Threelady dons viva-ing a cow" is probably apocryphal. The arms are not official. M. Maclagan Richmond Herald