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THE OLD CHURCHES OF WIRRAL
cherubim at the corners. Arms on a lozenge
Bunbury, with a crescent Sable for difference. On the
dexter side od the lozenge is a small shield, Sable, three
garbs Or within a bordure Argent (Birkenhead). On the
sinister side of the lozenge is a like shield quarterly, 1st
and 4th Argent 2nd and 3rd Gules, a fret Or; over all
a fesse Azure (Norres)."
It is safe to assume that to the vast
majority of people such technical descriptions
are so much **
Greek," nevertheless
they may form a point from which a view
of heraldry may be obtained and an
interest in its study aroused. It is not of
course possible, nor is it within the scope
of the present writer to attempt a learned
dissertation upon that study. This little
manual is not intended for antiquarians.
It is an ordinary book written by an ordin-
ary person for ordinary people, and its
writer has no other aim than to present
in a readable form some of the many and
varied interests which attach themselves
to our old parish churches, and it is because
he himself has so often fixed his
mystified gaze upon heraldic emblems that
he ventures now to illuminate those
mysteries with some of the light which he
has received.
It is to be noted, then, in the first place
that a shield always has a definite colour
which is called " the field," which con-
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