I posted a few photos of Art Deco in Ripon a few weeks ago.

Ripon’s landmark building is of course its cathedral, almost impossible to photograph without street furniture in the way.

Inside, in a side chapel, there was an altar with this highly geometric altar cloth which I considered to be in the Art Deco style.

On our October trip south we visited Fountains Abbey the same day we later took in Ripon. Photos of the Abbey will follow.

In the same grounds as Fountains Abbey, Fountains Hall houses an exhibition dedicated to the life of Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust.

On entry to the Hall and ascending the stairs you can turn back to view a memorial to the brother and sister Elizabeth Vyner and Charles de Gray Vyner, last scions of the family who owned the Hall in the 1940s. Both died on active service in World War 2.

This is the wording inscribed below the memorial.

Ripon has a nice main square where a market was in progress when we were there. Fronting on to the square was a sole Art Deco facade, a Burton’s.

These flats were in Kirkgate. The double glazing has kept the deco feel. The curved architraves above the windows are great. Pity about that roan pipe, though.

This is a closer view which shows the architraves to good effect.