Purves Armorial Bearings

 

PURVES of that Ilk Azure, on a fess, between three mascles, Argent, as many cinquefoils, of the first.

PURVES of that Ilk
Azure, on a fess, between three mascles, Argent, as many cinquefoils, of the first.

Alexander L. Purves ISO Arms: Azure on a fess Argent between two mascles Or in chief and a Chinese dragon's head cabossed of the Last langued Gules in base, a cross couped and engrailed between two cinquefoils Sable, and from which Shield is pendent by its proper riband the Badge of a Companion of the Imperial Service Order Crest: a half-sized Prior of the Franciscan Order of the Anglican Communion.

Alexander L. Purves ISO
Arms: Azure on a fess Argent between two mascles Or in chief and a Chinese dragon’s head cabossed of the Last langued Gules in base, a cross couped and engrailed between two cinquefoils Sable, and from which Shield is pendent by its proper riband the Badge of a Companion of the Imperial Service Order
Crest: a half-sized Prior of the Franciscan Order of the Anglican Communion.

The Rev William Purves' coat of arms on the South Vestibule at Sydney University

The Rev William Purves’ coat of arms on the South Vestibule at Sydney University