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07
Sept 2024
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: September 7
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. The undercroft, Fountains Abbey
This huge space is widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of medieval vaulting in Britain.
Also called the cellarium, it lay beneath the dormitory for lay brothers and it was used as a storage area.
Nowadays, it provides a home for bats and is sometimes used as a venue for concerts. In 2017, it also doubled as the cellars of the Houses of Parliament in the film Gunpowder, which told the story of Guy Fawkes' 1605 plot to kill the king.
2. The Star Inn, Starbeck
The Star Inn has long since ceased to be, but its presence on Starbeck High Street is forever commemorated in stone, high above today's ground-level shop frontages.
The former Star Inn on Starbeck High Street.
The inn presumably took its name from Starbeck, but the village's name has nothing to do with stars. It probably come from a Norse name meaning 'sedge beck".
Photo: WikiCommons/Rosser1954.
3. The Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough
This unique little chapel was carved out of the rock face of a quarry in the early 1400s as a shrine to the Virgin Mary on the old pilgrim's route to Knaresborough Priory.
Now a grade I listed building, it is open to the public between 2pm and 4pm on Sundays between Easter and late September. So if you want to go and pay a visit, you'd better be quick before it closes for the winter!
4. The wild boar statue, Ripley
This lovely old statue was given to Ripley in 1907 by the Honorable Alicia Margaret Dame Ingilby, a member of the family that has held Ripley Castle for over 700 years.
The boar became the symbol of the Ingliby family in 1357 when King Edward III came to hunt wild boar in the forest of Knaresborough. Thomas Ingleby (the spelling of the surname has changed over the years) is said to have saved the king's life when an injured boar charged threatened to gore the king. The king knighted Ingleby and the boar has been the family symbol ever since.
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