Gules armed and beaked Azure each supporting an Oar proper the blade of the dexter Dark Blue and that of the sinister Light Blue. In addition to bleu celeste, there is also an apparently unique example in British heraldry of the use of "light blue" in the
Municipal Borough of Barnes, through which the
Oxford versus Cambridge boat race passes on the Thames. The arms show the respective blades of the teams' oars, coloured dark
Oxford blue and light
Cambridge blue, and may be blazoned thus: :
Azure, on a saltire Or between four ostrich feathers argent, two oars in saltire proper, the blade of that to the dexter dark blue and that to the sinister light blue. When in 1965 that borough merged with its neighbours to form the
Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the coloured oars were transferred to the supporters in the arms of the new borough. ==See also==