Calvary cross

plural Calvary crosses · alternative cross Calvary · alternative cross calvary

1. governmentA cross atop a platform of (typically three) stepped tiers.

   The arms are argent, a Calvary cross gules. Is the name identical with our Brignal so common in the county of Durham, and which probably originates from Brignal near Rokeby?

   1867, Notes and Queries, page 455

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   Arms of Baldwin : Gules, on a chevron or between three Calvary crosses argent, as many slips of laurel fructed proper; with an inescocheon, Azure, within barrulets or, three escallops fessways erminois, in chief an etoile […] Crest, a squirrel or, sejant upon a hazel-branch fructed turned up behind his back, the dexter paw holding a slip of the same proper, the sinister paw resting upon a Calvary cross sable.

   1864, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, page 57

   [...] in the Notitia Monastica it is a Calvary cross sable, standing on a basis of two steps, and fimbriated or. Or the device may have belonged to some guild or fraternity among the townsmen of Nottingham. Thoroton mentions one more[…]

   1867, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 168