College Arms
The College's coat of arms celebrates its founding as a Methodist institution, in the tradition of the 18th-century Anglican minister, John Wesley. It has the following heraldic description:
- Argent, a cross sable, in each quarter three escallops of the last, for Wesley; on an escutcheon of pretence the Royal Arms of England. Crest: on a wreath and sable, a wyvern proper. Motto: Aedificamus in aeternum.
The actual rendering of the eschutcheon uses not the arms of England, but the arms of the United Kingdom. This is superimposed on the arms of John Wesley.
The college motto translates to We build for eternity.
The arms were assumed without a formal grant from the College of Arms.
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