page_title: University of Canterbury
section_title: Coat of arms
hierarchical_section_title: University of Canterbury / Coat of arms
caption_attribution_description: English: Academic procession at the en:University of Canterbury graduation ceremony 2004. Photo taken by en:User:Clawed.
context_page_description: The University of Canterbury is New Zealand's second oldest university.
  It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Its original campus was in the Christchurch Central City, but in 1961 it became an independent university and began moving out of its original neo-gothic buildings, which were re-purposed as the Christchurch Arts Centre. The move was completed on 1 May 1975 and the university now operates its main campus in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam and offers degrees in Arts, Commerce, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Forestry, Health Sciences, Law, Music, Social Work, Speech and Language Pathology, Science, Sports Coaching and Teaching. Music and classics are again taught from the Christchurch Arts Centre and within the new Manawa building in Christchurch city health and education are taught.
context_section_description: With the dissolution of the University of New Zealand, the newly independent University of Canterbury devised its own coat of arms, blazoned: "Murrey a fleece argent, in base a plough or, and on a chief wavy or an open book proper bound murrey, edged and clasped or between a pall azure charged with four crosses formy fitchy or and a cross flory azure."
  An explanation of the arms appears on the University website, where it's explained that the fleece symbolises the pastoral, and the plough at the base the agricultural background of the province of Canterbury. The bishop's pall and the cross flory represent Canterbury's ecclesiastical connections, and the open book denotes scholarship.
  As an institution of learning, the University's coat of arms does not have a helmet, crest or mantling.
caption: Academic procession at the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony 2004
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