The arms of the Mercer's Company
Gules, issuant from a bank of clouds proper a figure of the Virgin couped at the shoulders proper vested in a crimson robe adorned with gold the neck encircled with a jewelled necklace crined or and wreathed about the temples with a chaplet of roses alternately argent and of the first and crowned with a celestial crown, the whole with a bordure of clouds also proper.
The figure of the Virgin marks the fact that Abingdon is a school associated with the Mercers’ Company who today are conspicuous as a philanthropic corporation devoted to education. The association has its origins in the will of John Roysse but it has only become significant since the 1970s.
The image shows the arms of the Mercers' Company on the bridge of Mercers' Court.
