Armorial of Bishops of Chester

Escutcheon: Quarterly Gules and Ermine in dexter chief and sinister base a goat's head erased Argent attired Or a fleur-de-lis in a crescent in fess point.

(Tinctures unknown) Escutcheon: Party per bend indented Argent and Gules a crescent for difference.

Motto: Defend The Fold[1] Escutcheon: Gules a fess humetty Or between three tressels Argent.

Escutcheon: Argent on a bend Azure cotised Gules between six battle axes Sable three swans Or.

Escutcheon: Argent a talbot passant Sable collared Or on a chief indented Azure three crosslets of the third.

[3] Escutcheon: Azure a book Or between two mullets in chief and a saltire humetty in base Argent.

[4] Escutcheon: Or on a mount Vert a tree between a serpent erect and a dove close Proper.

Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a demi-panther rampant guardant Argent spotted with various colours fire issuing from the ears and mouth Proper.

Crest: A king's fisher Proper holding in the dexter claw a fleur-de-lys Sable.

Arms of the Diocese, with which individual bishops' arms may be impaled: Gules three mitres with their lables Or.
John Graham's arms displayed on his memorial in the cathedral .
1682 engraving of John Pearson, showing his arms impaling the bishopric's.