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[[File:Suffolk Brit Isles Sect 5.svg|thumb|220px|Suffolk]]
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[[File:County_Flag_of_Suffolk.png|thumb|right|Bullstode proposal]]
[[File:Flag of Suffolk.svg|thumb|right|Flag device used by the Suffolk County Council]]


The '''Suffolk flag''' is the proposed flag of the [[Suffolk|county of Suffolk]]. It has not yet been registered with the [[Flag Institute]].<ref name="ABC">{{cite web|url=http://www.abcounties.co.uk/counties/county-flags/county-flag-proposals?showall=1|author=Association of British Counties|title=County flag proposals|accessdate=13 January 2012}}</ref>
The '''Suffolk flag''' is the registered flag of the [[Suffolk|county of Suffolk]]. It was registered with the [[Flag Institute]] on October 9th 2017


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==Design==
==Design==


The design is a banner of the arms of Saint Edmund which bears two gold arrows passing through a gold crown. Edmund, a one time Saxon king of East Anglia is strongly connected with the county of Suffolk - his burial site is located at [[Bury Saint Edmunds]], in the county. The arms featuring a Saxon crown for the martyred Saxon king, were ascribed to Saint Edmund in the mediæval period and can be seen across the county incorporated into the coats of arms of several towns, as well as the arms of the county council. The Saint Edmund's arms themselves however are not used by any entity and have been proposed by Graham Bartram of the Flag Institute as an ideal flag for the county of Suffolk. This illustration of the arms is by Philip Tibbetts.
The design is a banner of the arms of Saint Edmund which bears two gold arrows passing through a gold crown. Edmund, a one time Saxon king of East Anglia, is strongly connected with the county of Suffolk - his burial site is located at [[Bury Saint Edmunds]], in the county. The arms featuring a Saxon crown for the martyred Saxon king, were ascribed to Saint Edmund in the mediæval period and can be seen across the county, incorporated into the coats of arms of several towns, the badges and logos of associations and sporting bodies and the arms of the county council, although they were not used per se by any one entity. Following its hoisting by the County Council, to celebrate Suffolk Day, June 21st 2017, a campaign was initiated to register the armorial banner of Saint Edmund, which was supported by twenty-one county based organisations. In light of this local support and extensive use of the emblem across the county, the flag was duly registered by the Flag Institute


An alternative proposal features the Saint Edmunds arms in shield form as an escutcheon on a Saint George's Cross. This is the work of Bill Bulstrode. Thus design originated with a campaign initiated by local [[Suffolk]] media to replace Saint George as [[England]]'s patron saint, with Saint Edmund. Accordingly, Bill Bulstrode, a local flag seller, lent support to this campaign by designing a flag to represent Saint Edmund and after some research decided that an appropriate move would be to combine Saint Edmund's blue shield with the red cross of Saint George. Originally designed with a triple pointed shield, after consultation with the Suffolk Heraldry Society, the flag was modified to feature the more commonly seen heater shield shape. Whilst an interesting idea the design is widely seen as too similar in form to the long established Flag of East Anglia, which bears three gold crowns on a blue shield, again as an escutcheon on a red Saint George's Cross. As Suffolk is a constituent part of this wider region it is necessary to distinguish the county's flag clearly and precisely, from the regional flag which already exists on the Flag Institute's registry.
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The Suffolk County Council itself does not conform with the standard heraldic practice of placing the design from the shield of its arms on a flag as a banner of the arms but unconventionally opts to feature the shield again as an escutcheon at the center of a yellow flag.
 
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Revision as of 23:41, 9 October 2017

Flag of Suffolk
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Suffolk

The Suffolk flag is the registered flag of the county of Suffolk. It was registered with the Flag Institute on October 9th 2017

Design

The design is a banner of the arms of Saint Edmund which bears two gold arrows passing through a gold crown. Edmund, a one time Saxon king of East Anglia, is strongly connected with the county of Suffolk - his burial site is located at Bury Saint Edmunds, in the county. The arms featuring a Saxon crown for the martyred Saxon king, were ascribed to Saint Edmund in the mediæval period and can be seen across the county, incorporated into the coats of arms of several towns, the badges and logos of associations and sporting bodies and the arms of the county council, although they were not used per se by any one entity. Following its hoisting by the County Council, to celebrate Suffolk Day, June 21st 2017, a campaign was initiated to register the armorial banner of Saint Edmund, which was supported by twenty-one county based organisations. In light of this local support and extensive use of the emblem across the county, the flag was duly registered by the Flag Institute

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