Flag of Sark

Sark
UseFlag of Sark[1][2]
Proportion3:5
Adopted2020
DesignArgent, a cross gules, in the canton two lions passant guardant or
The Seigneur's flag. Created in 1938. Used as the Seigneur's personal flag, it was then used as the de facto flag of Sark until 2020.[3]

The flag of Sark consists of a white background with a red St. George's cross and a red canton containing the two yellow lions (or in heraldic terms "leopards") from the flag of Normandy. This version of the flag was officially granted in 2020.[4]

Before its official grant, the flag of Sark showed the two lions protruding outside the canton and overflowing the red cross.[5] It was designed by Herbert Pitt in 1938[6] and then adopted as the personal standard of the Seigneur of Sark before becoming the island's flag.[3]

  1. ^ "Recent Grants of Arms". College of Arms. Official registers of coats of arms and pedigrees. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  2. ^ "January 2023 Newsletter (no. 70)". College of Arms. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b Flag Institute (1991). "Seigneur of Sark, New personal banner" (PDF). Flagmaster. 69: 11.
  4. ^ College of Arms (January 2023). "Recent Grants of Arms". January 2023 Newsletter (no. 70).
  5. ^ Flag Institute & Flags and Heraldry Committee (2020). Flying Flags in the United Kingdom (PDF). p. 10.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Flagmaster-2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).