The Description
The Coat of Arms is a crest formally described as follows: azure (blue), a bend (a diagonal band), between a double cross-crosslet (a cross figure with two transverse beams on each arm and top) fitchy degreed (with the bottom section pointed, and longer than the others), and a Tudor rose or (gold), latter seeded sable (the rose has black seeds).
Mantling (a cloak-like arch), azure doubled or (blue combined with gold). Over an esquire's helmet, the crest, an open book argent (silver), edged or (edged in gold), charged (imprinted) with two fleur-de-lis azure (blue conventionalized irises). Motto, Theta Phi Alpha in Greek, upper and lowercase.
The Breakdown
Azure, a bend or
Modern English: Blue, a stripe Gold
Bend is a single stripe from the upper right to the bottom left of the shield
Azure, a bend or, between a double cross-crosslet fitchy degreed or
Modern English: Blue, a bend Gold, between a double cross with a pointed bottom Gold
Note: My shield maker had limited crosses, so I’m using a patriarchal cross as a placeholder.
Azure a Tudor rose or, seeded sable.
Modern English: Blue, a rose Gold, seeds Black.
Azure, a bend, between a double cross-crosslet fitchy degreed, and a Tudor rose or, latter seeded sable.
Modern English: Blue, a stripe Gold, between a cross and a Tudor rose gold with the roses’s seeds Black