Maldon Cricket Club

From the end of last year, I’ve been working to refresh and standardise the club’s logos across both digital and physical platforms. As of January 2026, the design was finalised.

Arms

The club’s traditional arms/shield has been carefully updated, ensuring that it retains the heritage and identity that members and supporters recognise, while making it more consistent and adaptable for modern use.

This updated arms will gradually begin to appear across club equipment and materials as existing items reach the end of their lifespan. This approach allows the club to evolve its visual identity without unnecessary waste or cost.

I couldn’t find any information on who drew the older version and or when online. But I’m sure someone within the club will know, and this will be updated appropriately.

Social Media Profile

Alongside the updated arms, I’ve also introduced a new social media profile logo. Previously, the club’s social accounts used an image featuring the older shield with hand-drawn text reading “Maldon Cricket Club”. A variation of this was first shared on social media on 8th March 2021. While this served the club well, it wasn’t originally designed with modern social media formats in mind.

The new social media logo takes the updated arms and places it within a circular design, similar in style to a pin badge. This format works much better for profile pictures across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and X, ensuring the logo remains clear and recognisable even at smaller sizes.

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Whilst designing the updated arms and logo, I took a dive into the history of the design and found a long and historic trail that tracks key features of the most recent designs back centuries. I’ve included some of the information I found below.

The History Behind the Maldon (Cricket Club) Arms

The shield used by Maldon Cricket Club is closely connected to the historic ‘unofficial’ Maldon arms, a design that has roots stretching back several centuries. Elements of the arms originate from the town seals used in Maldon during the early modern period. Historic examples such as the “Seal of Maldon from around 1600” and the “Seal of Maldon from around 1682” both show the key visual elements that have become strongly associated with the town: the Maldon ships and the three lions.

These distinctive features continued to appear in Maldon’s heraldic imagery across the following centuries. The same core design can be seen on historical items such as the arms on an “18th century Maldon token”, showing how the imagery remained consistent as a symbol of the town.

A particularly close visual match to the modern Maldon arms can be seen on a “JaJa postcard from around 1905”, this is oldest recorded colour image of the arms I could find online.

The design used there closely resembles the modern version.
That can be seen in person at the top of the High Street, West Square. However this version is more traditional as it follows the standard coat of arms shape, being a 6:7 ratio. Unlike the recent square shield, which was drawn and scanned to form the recognisable arms that many people associate today with Maldon Town Council and Maldon Cricket Club.

I couldn’t find any information on which came first. But I’m sure someone within the club will know, and this will be updated appropriately.

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Those interested in exploring the heraldic history of Maldon in more detail can find further information here:
https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/Maldon_(Borough)
https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/wiki/Maldon

The full sources of the Seals can be found both physically and by drawing:
Royal Museums Greenwich host a physical seal, not on display. Maldon, seal of the admiralty court, late 15th or early 16th century | Royal Museums Greenwich.
“Schiffe auf Siegeln” von Herbert Ewe 1972 (p. 150-151.), containing drawings of ‘seal of Maldon from the 13th century’ and ‘seal of Maldon from the 17th century’. It further looks at historical types of ships and trade.
Which has been imaged and referenced in a translation:
SHIPS AFTER SEAL PRINTS; Laszlo Veres; Pécs, 2020 (p. 39, 121.)
Scanned images of only the Seals, appear on the Heraldry website.

“Picture of the old Borough Seal of Maldon, the only perfect impression known to exist (preserved at Colchester).  A very much broken impression from the same seal is attached to the transcript of the Maldon Borough Charter of 1378.” All Saints Maldon – History of Our Parish and Church