In
heraldry, an
ordinary is described as quadrate (or more fully, nowy quadrate), when it has a square central boss.[1]
Cross quadrate argent
Cross quadrate sable
Cross quadrate gammadion
Saltire quadrate
St. Chad cross
Cross paty quadrate
Shield of
Durham University: Argent, a cross paty quadrate gules; on a canton azure a chevron or between three lions rampant argent.
Banner of the Burgh of
Markinch, Scotland: Gules, on a cross nowy quadrate argent a cock gules.
Gules, a cross paty quadrate or, charged with five mullets of six points gules: a chief arched ermine charged with two Cornish choughs proper - Vickers, England
Only certain ordinaries are usually shown quadrate: the
cross, the
pale, and the
fess – but not, for example, a
bordure or
chevron.