Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
 |
|
| Kendal: Webster's Marble Works | ||
| Webster's Marble Works | ||
| site name:- | Bridge House | |
| Street:- | Bridge Street | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | marble works | |
| locality type:- | office | |
| locality type:- | shop | |
| coordinates:- | SD517926 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
|
|
||
| hearsay:- |
What is now Bridge House was the offices and showroom of the Marble Works belonging
to Francis Webster, about 1800; later run by George and Francis Webster, about 1829.
Francis snr, architect, started the business:- |
|
| "About the year 1800 ... Mr Webster erected machinery at Low Mills, on the River Kent,
for sawing and polishing marble ..." |
||
| Part of the offices, 3 Bridge Street, was converted to a dwelling, occupied by Francis
jnr in 1841. |
||
| Nicholson, C: 1832: Annals of Kendal Parson, W and W: 1829: History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland: Baines (Ledds, Yorkshire) |
||
|
|
||
Lakes Guides menu.