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| market cross, Ambleside | ||
| Street:- | Market Place | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | market cross | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY37670452 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
| references:- | Listed Buildings 2010 |
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 BUO52.jpg (taken 19.5.2011) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 10) |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Cross" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1822 (plate 4) |
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| source data:- | Print, etching, Ambleside Cross House as altered in 1819, Ambleside, Westmorland,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822. click to enlargeGN0804.jpg One of the signs reads 'POST OFFICE'. Plate 4 in Forty Etchings from Nature. printed at bottom:- "AMBLESIDE CROSS HOUSE as altered in 1819. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822." item:- Armitt Library : A6644.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- item:- cart; cross; market cross |
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| source data:- | The Carrier, by R Warne, about 1830. click to enlargePR0775.jpg item:- Armitt Library : no id 1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, stereo photo, The Market Place, Ambleside, Westmorland,
by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1900s? click to enlargeHB0978.jpg printed at bottom of image:- "56. - The Market Place, Ambleside." printed at rev of mount:- "Herbert Bell / Ambleside." item:- Armitt Library : 2005.158 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- cart |
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| source data:- | Copy photograph, drawing of Market Place, Ambleside, perhaps by Mr Barhams, 1824,
copied by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlargeHB0239.jpg item:- Armitt Library : 1958.5098 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CROSS IN FRONT OF THE SALUTATION INN / / RYDAL ROAD / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 451901 / NY3767604523" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Date uncertain. Octagonal stone shaft (head broken off) set on new stone steps." |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1821 item:- post office (?); innsign |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Ambleside Market Place, by William Green, published at
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821. click to enlargeGN0204.jpg Plate 4 in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. On the left are the ?Post Office and John P? Tailor and an innsign; the lowest house in the view is William Green's; centre is the market cross. printed at upper left:- "4" printed at bottom:- "AMBLESIDE MARKET PLACE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821." item:- Armitt Library : A6638.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1821 item:- innsign |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Market Place, Ambleside, by William Green, published at
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821. click to enlargeGN0223.jpg Plate 23 in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. printed at upper left:- "23" printed at bottom:- "MARKET PLACE, AMBLESIDE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821." item:- Armitt Library : A6638.23 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1809 |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Cross House in Ambleside, and the market cross, Ambleside,
Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland,
and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809. click to enlargeGN0377.jpg Plate 77 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. printed at bottom:- "CROSS HOUSE IN AMBLESIDE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6637.77 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BTV20.jpg Market Place, 1880s. |
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