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| school, Ambleside | ||
| Ambleside School | ||
| Kelsick Grammar School | ||
| Street:- | Stockghyll Road | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | school | |
| coordinates:- | NY38280440 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3804 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 132:- "..." "... The school-house was built and endowed by a Mr Kelsick of Ambleside, is free for the inhabitants of the town, and the yearly salary is about forty pounds, arising out of the lands left by the donee. The Reverence Isaac Knipe, M.A. is the schoolmaster and curate of the chapel ..." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- knitting |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 155:- "..." "Ambleside ... a school founded by Mr. John Kelwich 1723." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.323 "Rosegill, Oct. 2." "..." "AMBLESIDE, in the parish of Windermere, founded in 1723, by John Kelswick of Ambleside, and endowed by him with an estate at Ambleside." |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 33:- "[Ambleside] ... The town also reaps the benefit of a well-endowed grammar-school, founded by John Kelswick in 1721." |
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| hearsay:- |
Built with the money left by John Kelsick to the Kelsick Educational Trust for the
education of children in Ambleside. There was first a preaching teacher at St Anne's
Church. Later there was a proper school built up the Stockghyll Road, used from 1908-65;
which is now an annexe of St Martin's College. |
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