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04
Jan 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: January 4
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
Photo: The National Trust.
1. Fountains Hall
The grade I listed Fountains Hall is part of the World Heritage Site at Studley Royal Park, which include the ruins of Fountains Abbey.
It was built between 1598 and 1611, partly with stone from the abbey ruins, but fell into disuse some time in the 18th century. Parts were leased to tenants, and parts were used for farm storage until it was finally renovated between 1928 and 1931.
During the Second World War it was used by Queen Ethelburga's School in Harrogate when the school buildings were temporarily requisitioned by the government.
Now owned by the National Trust, parts are accessible by the public, but some of it has been converted into flats.
Photo: Michelle Bray.
2. Bilton Viaduct
Bilton Viaduct, which crosses the River Nidd north of Harrogate, was originally a railway bridge. It was built in 1847 but closed to trains in the 1960s and now only carries walkers, cyclists and horseriders.
The mural occupies the space where a window used to be before it was bricked up.
3. Mural, Knaresborough
This is one of Knaresborough's more recent murals. It shows Philippa of Hainault (1310-69), who was gifted Knaresborough Castle by her husband, Edward III.
She acted as his regent in 1346, when he was away for the Hundred Years War.
The boy in the picture is Edward the Black Prince, and the black rat represents the Black Death, which is thought to have been transmitted by fleas carried by rats, and first came to Yorkshire in 1349. The tapestry on the wall behind Philippa includes her crest.
4. All Saints' Church, Harrogate
Most people speed by this beautiful church without even knowing its name, but All Saints' Church at the top of Harlow Hill is one of the most distinctive-looking in the district.
Built as a chapel of ease in Gothic Revival style in 1871, its round, stone-roofed spire gives it a romantic, fairytale appearance unlike any other in the area.
Sadly, the building was shut in 2006 due to wet and dry rot, and was declared unsafe in 2009. Deconsecrated, it was sold to a funeral director's, but plans to turn it into a chapel of rest foundered, and a private developer now has permission to convert it into a private dwelling.
One of its claims to fame is that it is the resting place of Bradford-born Michael Rennie, who starred in sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still and many other Hollywood movies, and was once Britain's highest-paid actor.
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