The window keystone figures on the back of the former Middlesex Guildhall have a modern slant, though the costumes are still medieval.
The pair to the left are a very early (and in those days highly unlikely) man-and-wife engineer couple. She fiddles with a sector gear and pinion, and he holds a pair of dividers and a cog.
In the middle is the angel of navigation, a star on her brow. She holds an armillary sphere.
The next figure is Harry Potter holding a snitch NO, only kidding, he is a telecomms engineer with a winged globe distributing signals round the earth as lightning bolts.
To the right is another inexplicable figure holding a tiny dancing beardie in a loin cloth. Possibly Mother taking Son to Westminster School of the Performing Arts because he's
so talented he gets bullied at the crammer he was at.
I think you'll find that last is St. Christopher, who is usually depicted carrying the Christ Child. Quite why he's so jolly I've no idea.
ReplyDeleteI did wonder if it was St Christopher, but he is usually portrayed carrying the Christ child on his back. The little figure is not a child, and it isn't even entirely clear that the big figure is a man - is there is bulge in the chest region there?
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