City of Hamilton - Hamilton, Bermuda
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N 32° 17.662 W 064° 47.138
20S E 331867 N 3574465
The coat-of-arms of the City of Hamilton, Bermuda is located on the west side of the City Hall building on Church Street.
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Location: Bermuda
Date Posted: 10/27/2014
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The Hamilton City Hall building doubles as the home of the Bermuda Arts Center. In 1933, Miss Catherine Tucker bequeathed a large sum of money to build of a new City Hall in memory of her father, George Somers Tucker. World War II started before construction could begin. In 1958 the building was built under the direction of architect Wil Onions. His design for City Hall was based on the traditional Bermuda cottage. The design includes a large coat of arms of Hamilton on the west end of the front of the building.
The description of the coat-of-arms from wikipedia:
The coat of arms of the city of Hamilton incorporate a shield featuring a golden sailing ship, representing the Resolution, surrounded by three five-petalled flowers, two above the ship and one below, also in gold, all on a plain blue background. This shield is supported by a mermaid and heraldic sea horse (i.e., demi-horse, demi-fish), and is placed on a mount in front of which is a scroll containing the motto "Sparsa Collegit". The shield is topped by a crest featuring a closed helm topped with a torque above which an heraldic seahorse is emerging from the sea holding a flower. The city's full motto is Hamilton sparsa collegit, ("Hamilton has assembled the scattered").