City of Preston

The Coat-of-Arms of the City of Preston is briefly described as follows:-

The Lamb is the Lamb of St. Wilfrid who is the Patron Saint of Preston. The letters "P.P." are taken to mean "Princeps Pacis" - Prince of Peace, or as some people would like it to be, "Proud Preston".

However, on earlier Coats-of-Arms the Lamb was standing and three letters "P" were depicted on it. The reason for the three letters was to give a general balance to the Coat-of-Arms. The Coat-of-Arms was in later years modernised and one of the letters "P" was left out, again as a method of improving the general design balance.

Heraldic description 

Azure, a paschal lamb couchant argent,
supporting a cross staff or,
flying a pennant of the second,
in base the letters p.p. of the third.

Date Updated: 04/12/08