Calvary cross
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Noun
[edit]Calvary cross (plural Calvary crosses)
- (heraldry) A cross atop a platform of (typically three) stepped tiers.
- 1864, London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, page 57:
- 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.
- 1867, John Gough Nichols, The Herald and Genealogist, page 168:
- [...] 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, Notes and Queries, page 455:
- 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?