The Key

The Key is five-and-a-quarter inches long and is made in wrought steel and gold, the bit being warded as a Grand Master to the doors of the Municipal Buildings.  The stem is fluted and inlaid in the upper part with a ribbon of gold bearing the Borough Motto 'Sanitate Crescamus' (Health and Growth).  The bow is pierced and cut, the year of the opening ceremony being thus wrought in the top.  In the centre are two shields backed, one carrying the arms of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the other those of the Borough, the ordinaries and charges being modelled in low relief.  The shields are enclosed by two C's (the initial letter of Croydon) and, through the tracery, within the letters, are twined blades of the rye grass of the Borough Crest in gold.  The four corners of the bow are filled with gold trefoils. 

The Key was designed by Gilbert Marks, of Croydon, and wrought by hand by him and his assistants.

Source: The Croydon Local Studies Library

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