County Durham and South Tyne
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A lozenge azure, quartered by a cross throughout yellow, in each quarter a lion rampant or.
The arms derived from the tranditional arms of the Saint, King Oswald (605-42). The cross is the cross of Stain Cuthbert, a patron saint of the see of Durham and Oswald's work spreading Christianity in Northumbria. There is some doubt as to the derivation of the lions, it may be out of deference to the great family of Percy, or the first Prince Bishop, Robert Newell (1438-57) which contained four lions rampant
