Impaled and Impaling

"Impaled/impaling. Transitive verb. ... 2. to join (coats of arms) on a heraldic shield divided vertically by a pale." (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

Well, close, but not quite close enough. A pale is a specific charge, and frankly would hide a fair bit of the two coats of arms on an impaled shield. They could have shortened it just a bit, and been more accurate:

"2. to join (coats of arms) on a heraldic shield divided vertically."

There. Fixed it for 'em.

Anyhow, and getting back to heraldry found in the wild in Cambridge, England, over at Trinity Hall (whose arms we have seen before in my post entitled "The Arms of the 'Other' Trinity" (http://blog.appletonstudios.com/2023/03/the-arms-of-other-trinity.html) I found this gate with not one but two impaled coats of arms, both with the arms of Trinity Hall, in one case impaled by, and in the other impaling, another coat of arms. (As ever, you can click on one or the other of the images below to see a larger, more detailed photo of these impaled arms.)

On the left side of the gate, we have the arms of the Diocese of Norwich (Azure three bishop’s mitres or) impaling the arms of Trinity Hall (Sable a crescent within a bordure ermine). (I discussed the origin of the Trinity Hall arms in that earlier post.)

And on the right side, we see the arms of Trinity Hall impaling Geldart (Azure a lion rampant reguardant ducally crowned between three arrows all or.)

Thomas Charles Geldart, LL.D. (1797-1877) was a lawyer and academic. He was born at Kirk Deighton* and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1818 and M.A. in 1821. He was Fellow of Trinity Hall from 1821 to 1836. He was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1823. He was Master of Trinity Hall from 1852 until his death. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1853 to 1854.

So far, so good. But Burke's General Armory, under "Geldart (Dr. Geldart, co. Cambridge)", blazons his arms as Vert a lion rampant reguardant ducally crowned between three arrows or. 

Are Dr. Geldart's arms mis-colored here on the gate? Or are they mis-blazoned in Burke's? I can't find enough information to be able to determine which with any confidence. Clearly they can't both be correct, but I am currently unable to state where the error lies.

* Proof once more that "it's a small world after all". Kirk Deighton, where Dr. Geldart was born, is a town of less than 500 located just a little west of York, England. It is also the town from which my wife's paternal line originates before emigrating to colonial Virginia and eventually moving south to North Carolina and spreading out to other parts of the American South. We visited All Saints Church in Kirk Deighton last year where several of her ancestors were baptized, and like so many English parish churches, it contains heraldry! So you'll be seeing the heraldry of All Saints Kirk Deighton in some posts further down the road.