England (United Kingdom)

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by rob raeside
Keywords: england | united kingdom | cross: saint george | leopards: 3 | lions: 3 |
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3:5 by Vincent Morley

• Description of the flag
  • About St. George
• Earliest use of the flag
• Flag-flying days
• Use of the flag in the Church of England
  • Naval flags on English Churches
• Banner of England
• Tudor Naval Flags
• English counties and other regions
  • Bedfordshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Cumbria
  • Devon
    • Lundy Island
  • Durham
  • East Anglia
  • Essex
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
    • St. Albans
  • Isle of Wight
  • Isles of Scilly
  • Kent
  • Lancashire
    • Liverpool
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Mercia
  • North of England flag
  • Northumberland
  • Oxfordshire
  • Rutland
  • Staffordshire
  • Somerset
  • Surrey
  • Sussex
    • Worthing
  • Wessex
  • West Midlands
  • Wiltshire
  • Yorkshire
• City of London
• English football teams
• Banners of English Saints
• Flags at the Globe Theatre

See also:

• United Kingdom
• Battle of Hastings, 1066
• Flags of the Interregnum, 1649-60

The cross of St George is the flag of England, not the Union Jack. It is a red cross on a white field. The Church of England uses the cross of Saint George with the shield of arms of its diocese in the canton, although in practice many, when they fly the flag at all, fly the plain cross.

Roy Stilling, 21 November 1995

As far as I know, the St George's Cross flag as the national flag of England has no official proportions, as it is not used officially by government bodies etc. Public buildings in England are supposed to fly the Union Jack on St George's Day (April 23rd) and can only fly St George if they have more than one flagpole.