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Jun 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: June 28
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Roger's Almshouses, Harrogate
These almshouses were built in 1868 and paid for by George Rogers, a Bradford textile manufacturer and Harrogate philanthropist. The almshouses are available to people from Harrogate or Bradford who are over 60 years old.
2. New Bridge, near Birstwith
The original packhorse bridge, on the route from Ripon to either Otley or Skipton (sources differ), was built in 1615, but it was demolished when this one was built 25 yards downstream more than 200 years ago, in 1822.
Photo: J Shepherd.
3. Temple of Piety, Fountains Abbey
Standing on the east side of Moon Pond, this grade I listed building is one of the most prominent features of the water gardens at Fountains Abbey.
It was originally built by John Aislabie in the 1730s as a summer house dedicated to Hercules, and was only given its current name a couple of decades later.
4. Statue of Mercury, Aldborough
Continuing the Classical theme, this indistinct figure in St Andrew's Church dates back to when Aldborough was called Isurium Brigantum and was the civic capital of the Brigantes, the largest British tribe in Roman Britain.
St Andrew's is believed to stand on the site where the occupying Romans had a temple to Mercury, god of boundaries, commerce, communication, eloquence, financial gain, languages, luck, thieves, travellers, and trickery.
The statue was discovered during construction of the foundations of the 14th-century church, and was set into the church wall in the 17th century. Back then, Mercury's wings and staff could still be seen, but the sandstone statue has deteriorated since then and only his outline is still visible.
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