Calvary cross

English right|thumb|A Calvary cross. Noun en heraldiccharge A cross atop a platform of (typically three) stepped tiers. en 1864 London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society 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. en 1867 John Gough Nichols The Herald and Genealogist 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 en 1867 Notes and Queries 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? Alternative forms cross Calvary, cross calvary