Coat of arms of Skara
Skara’s arms show a red, shingle-roofed Romanesque church with an apse on silver. Its two pointed tower roofs are topped with crosses, the right tower taller; doors and windows are silver.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver en röd kyrka med två torn krönt med kors med dörr av silver med fönster av silver.
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 below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1301): Used as a seal as of
- 13 December 1963: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic guidelines present the arms as a distinct civic emblem and explain their permitted use.
Source: Skara kommun: Riktlinjer för kommunikationskanaler och grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality’s official blazon describes the church as Romanesque and shingle-roofed and specifies the apse, tower tops, and silver doors and windows.
Source: Skara kommun: Riktlinjer för kommunikationskanaler och grafisk profil
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
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- church
- 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.
