Keywords: Crowned Portcullis.svg en The portcullis design is recorded as the work of Charles Barry in 1834 and is used on many Royal commissions such as on the Great Bell Big Ben As well as wide use of the portcullis design with varied supporting emblems this specific version with the crown has been used by HM Customs and Excise for some centuries There was a formal grant to both Houses of Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996 A grant for official use is not a claim of copyright It is not possible to retrospectively claim copyright of an emblem or logo where publication and usage dates back more than two centuries This information is based on House of Commons Information Office paper The Portcullis published in 2010 2014-03-15 11 24 36 Original versions can be found published at http //parliament uk/ and on correspondence from both the House of Lords and House of Commons Charles Barry other versions House of Commons of the United Kingdom svg 160 other fields a + PD-old-100 Images uploaded by Fæ House of Commons of the United Kingdom 1834 documents SVG logos of the United Kingdom Symbols of national legislatures UK Portcullis in heraldry Original upload log page en wikipedia Crowned_Portcullis svg 2012-12-19 01 01 Peeperman 460×550× 11371 bytes <nowiki>merge the divined portucullis an divined crown</nowiki> 2009-05-27 10 01 Tom Edwards 460×550× 6215 bytes <nowiki>Further tweaks</nowiki> |