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Jul 2024
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: July 27
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Fox's Head Well, Pateley Bridge
Fox's Head Well is the 12th stop on the Pateley Bridge heritage trail. According to its red plaque, it was originally built in 1852 on Ripon Road as Souter Well.
The Pateley Bridge Heritage Trail plaque on the well.
It was moved to its current site at the top end of Pateley Bridge High Street in the 1970s and takes its name from the shape of its spout.
Image: Mural Minded.
2. Mural in Harrogate town centre
This stunning mural on Cross James Street – between James Street and Market Place in Harrogate – was created in 2021 by Harrogate-based artist Sam Porter of Mural Minded. You can see lots of his other works in Starbeck, Knaresborough and beyond.
3. St Mary's Church, Studley Royal
This magnificent church is one of the finest examples of High Victorian Gothic Revival architecture in England, but it has its origins in a little-known Greek tragedy.
In 1870, a group of tourists on a trip to Marathon in Greece was kidnapped by bandits who demanded a ransom of one million drachma (a huge sum at the time) for their release.
As Greek soldiers closed in, the bandits panicked and shot all the hostages in what became known as the Dilessi Massacre.
One of the victims was 23-year-old Frederick Vyner, whose widowed mother, Lady Mary Vyner, lived at Newby Hall. His sister, Henrietta, was married to the 1st Marquess of Ripon, who owned Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey.
Lady Mary and Lord and Lady Ripon put the money they had set aside for the ransom towards building two parish churches on their lands in Frederick's memory: the church of Christ the Consoler at Newby, and St Mary’s in Studley Royal Park.
St Mary's Church is managed by the National Trust.
4. Crimple Viaduct, Harrogate
An easy one to finish on. This iconic viaduct has 31 arches and rises up to 34 metres (110 feet) above the Crimple Valley.
It was built in 1848 for the Harrogate to Church Fenton line, which was part of the York and North Midland Railway, but is now one of the highlights of the Leeds-Harrogate line.
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