Medieval painting of St.Christopher, Raunds, Northants

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St.Christopher, Raunds, Northants (‡ Peterborough) c.1420

Photo:T.Marshall St. Christopher, Raunds [35KB]

A particularly fine example restored by Eve Baker in 1963. The saint’s patriarchal white beard is unusual, and the contrast between the rather small Christ Child (who is now difficult to see against the patterned background) on his left shoulder and his own gigantic stature is striking. Fish are present in the stream, as usual, with a flatfish resembling a skate prominent (bottom, centre right, as if standing on its tail). The yellowish humped mass at the left represents the far bank of the river towards which Christopher is wading.

The background is patterned (or ‘diapered’) with a small ‘peacock’s eye’ design in red. These, symbolising immortality, are often found in paintings of St. Christopher.

Raunds has several other paintings - the Three Living & the Three Dead and the Seven Deadly Sins are also now on these pages

Website for St Peter’s, Raunds

More paintings of St. Christopher. Follow the links below for individual picture and text pages - ‡ in page heading = Diocese

Ashby St Ledgers, Northants	Belton, Suffolk	Burnham Overy, Norfolk	Cottered, Hertfordshire	East Wellow, Hants
Edingthorpe Norfolk	Fritton, Norfolk	Haddiscoe, Norfolk	Hemblington, Norfolk	Horley, Oxfordshire
Impington, Cambridgeshire	Irstead, Norfolk	Layer Marney, Essex	Littlebourne, Kent	Martlesham, Suffolk
Molesworth, Northants	Oaksey, Wilts	Paston, Norfolk	Pickering, N. Yorks	Raunds, Northants
Shorwell, Isle of Wight	Slapton, Northants	Stoke Dry, Rutland	Thorpe Mandeville, Northants *NEW*	Thurlton, Norfolk
Thurton, Norfolk *NEW*	Wickhampton, Norfolk	Willingham, Cambridgeshire	Woodeaton, Oxon

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