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| Cross House, Ambleside | ||
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| Cross House | ||
| Street:- | Market Place | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | market (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY37690453 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1809 placename:- Cross House |
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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 in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 77. This singular erection may be seen from the Exhibition House in Ambleside, but the view here presented is not from that house, but is taken higher up in the market-place. Formerly Ambleside chiefly consisted of pictureque and curious buildings, but it is now annually modernizing." 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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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1822 (plate 3) placename:- Cross House item:- gallery; chimney top |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured etching, The Cross House and Bedlam in Ambleside, Westmorland, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822. click to enlargeGN0803.jpg Plate 3 in Forty Etchings from Nature. printed at bottom:- "THE CROSS HOUSE and BEDLAM in AMBLESIDE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822." item:- Armitt Library : A6644.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1822 (plate 4) placename:- Cross House item:- gallery; tile hanging |
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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 photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Copy photograph, from a print of Cross House, Ambleside, drawn by William Green, 1809,by
Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlargeHB0228.jpg printed at rev:- "Herbert Bell / Ambleside." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.5150 Image © see bottom of page |
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