Coat of arms of Grums
Grums’s arms show a silver church on blue, beneath a silver chief bearing three blue circular saw blades.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en kyrka av silver med ett svart torn krönt med kors med fönster och däröver en ginstam av silver belagd med tre blå cirkelsågklingor.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text distinguishes registry information from the municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 25 September 1952: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The municipal description specifies a church with a black tower, windows and crosses. Above it is a silver chief charged with three blue circular saw blades.
Source: Heraldica record 3176
Background in the municipal sources
Grums’s graphic manual says the church is modelled on the area’s first parish church, which appeared in the hundred’s seal. The three saw blades represent the timber industry, the foundation of the municipality’s industry in the twentieth century. The arms were adopted in 1952.
Source: Grums kommun: Grafisk profilhandbok·Heraldica record 3176
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- circular saw blade
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- Sable
- church
- chief
- three
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
