File:Arms of the University of Manchester.svg

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Coat of arms InfoField	English: University of Manchester
Blazon InfoField	English: Shield: Per fess nebuly enhanced bleu-celeste and purpure issuant in chief a sun in splendour or in base three bees volant proper. Crest: Upon a helm within a coronet composed of four roses purpure barbed argent seeded and set upon a circlet or a demi lion guardant or murally crowned argent holding in the paws a torch erect sable enflamed or.
Date	29 March 2022
Object history	English: The coat of arms of the University of Manchester.
Artist InfoField	ET72
Source	Based on blazon from Heraldry of the World Helm and Mantling edited from File:Arms_of_Gloucestershire_County_Council.svg Crown and Crest from [1] Bee from File:Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Bruce-Gardner_baronets.svg Sun from File:Blason_de_Vincenzo_Valentini.svg
Other versions	Shield alone without crest

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:21, 24 August 2022	1,863 × 2,766 (315 KB)	ET72	Crest improved.
	06:25, 29 March 2022	1,863 × 2,868 (474 KB)	ET72	Depicted in standard Wikimedia Commons/Sodacan style
	14:11, 1 January 2021	1,058 × 1,405 (811 KB)	Shadowssettle	Fix Latin motto (+I) and recolour motto backing purple. Although red is used in historical deptictions, purple stands out less starkly from the shield
	08:58, 22 June 2020	1,058 × 1,405 (810 KB)	Shadowssettle	Resize crest and neaten mantling from crown
	09:51, 21 June 2020	1,058 × 1,475 (810 KB)	Shadowssettle	fix crown, helmet lines, and tidy XML
	14:42, 20 June 2020	1,058 × 1,475 (1.12 MB)	Shadowssettle	use common colours
	14:18, 20 June 2020	1,058 × 1,475 (1.12 MB)	Shadowssettle	Red helmet interior too strong, now grey, and barb roses argent
	14:01, 20 June 2020	1,058 × 1,475 (1.11 MB)	Shadowssettle	Fix background
	13:49, 20 June 2020	1,048 × 1,471 (1.11 MB)	Shadowssettle	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard