Category: Where Is This?

Time for the solution to photo Number 3 and to give you Where is This photo Number 4!

First, the solution to Number 3:-

Its Bootham Tower the rectangular tower and postern on the opposite side of the road from Bootham Bar in Exhibition Square. The tower was built in 1497 as a rear entrance to the Abbot’s House, which became the King’s Manor, a royal palace and the seat from 1540 to 1641 of the Council of the North. The tower is constructed of brick behind a stone facing. The three-story tower has a gabled roof now, but the windows in the South East and North West walls may once have been crenelations on a flat-topped tower.

In summer months the tower is used as a booking office and information point for York City Sightseeing open-top bus tours.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 4 :-

Again a location passed by thousands of people every day – but more wheels than feet ! Can you identify where it is ?

Time for the solution to photo Number 2 and to give you Where is This photo Number 3!

First, the solution to Number 2:-

This now never-gargling gargoyle once drained water from the wall-walk around the top of Clifford’s Tower however the wall-walk is now about two foot too low to be drained through the mouth of this weathered demon. The walk was probably lowered in Elizabethan times by the enterprising gaoler Robert Redhead who was accused of selling off the stone but the Corporation complained to London and the tower was saved for us all to enjoy.

So now for Mystery Picture Number 3:-

A little easier this time! – This location is passed by thousands of people every day. Can you identify where it is, and why you would go inside that door ?

The answer will be given here on our FaceBook page.

So here is the next “Mystery Picture”.

Remember all pictures are related to York’s Walls, The Bars, Clifford’s Tower, York Castle and St Mary’s Abbey – but they will not be pictures of the more obvious or well known features of York’s wonderful heritage.

See if you can identify where they have been taken. Answers will be given on our FaceBook page.

So did you identify where Picture Number 1 was taken?

At the River Ouse end of Marygate is Marygate Water Tower, sometimes known as Marygate Landing Tower. The tower walls have four cruciform slits, which have oillets to the arms. Mystery Picture Number 1 shows one of these cruciform slits.

Marygate Water Tower is part of the remains of the defensive precinct walls of St Mary’s Abbey, which survive on the north-west and north-east sides of the Abbey Precinct. The walls were erected in 1266, then raised, crenellated and extended in 1318. The Water Tower and St Mary’s Tower, at the other end of Marygate, were erected in 1324. A pedestrian arch was added beside the Water Tower circa 1836. The tower exterior is circular on plan, but the interior is hexagonal, with a single opening to each inner face. The Towers and The Abbey Walls are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.