Editing Ambleside (section)

==Landmarks==
===Bridge House===
[[File:Bridge House Ambleside.JPG|thumb|150px|Bridge House in 2009]]
Bridge House was built over [[Stock Ghyll]] more than 300 years ago, probably as a summer house and apple store for Ambleside Hall. It was purchased by local people in 1926 and given to the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]]. [[Grade I listed buildings in Cumbria|Listed Grade I]], the building is now used as an information centre for the National Trust, and is part of the Trust's [[Windermere and Troutbeck]] property.<ref>Bridge House – Information from a notice at Bridge House.</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num= 1245148|desc= BRIDGE HOUSE |access-date = 23 July 2014}}</ref>

[[File:View of the cobbler's shop on the bridge, Ambleside (undated).jpg|160px|thumb|left|Lewis Pinhorn Wood's ''The Cobbler's Shop on the Bridge'']] The building was depicted by the Victorian landscapist [[Lewis Pinhorn Wood]] (1848–1918) in his late 19th century work ''The Cobbler's Shop on the Bridge''.

===St Mary's Church===
{{Main|St Mary's Church, Ambleside}}
[[File:Ambleside parish church.jpg|thumb|150px|St Mary's Church]]
A shared Church of England and Methodist church.  Before the 17th century the dead of Ambleside were buried at [[St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere]],
Ambleside then gained the right to its own registers and had a chapel dedicated to St Anne. This was too small to accommodate the enlarged [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] congregations as tourism boomed from the [[Kendal and Windermere Railway]] opened in 1847.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://openplaques.org/places/gb/areas/ambleside|title=Open Plaques|website=Openplaques.org}}</ref>
St Mary's Church was built in the 1850s to a design by [[George Gilbert Scott]] in the [[Gothic Revival]] style.<ref name=visit>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitcumbria.com/amb/ambleside-st-marys-church/|title=St Mary's Church - Ambleside|website=Visitcumbria.com|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> 
Notable features include:
* the stone [[spire]], an unusual feature in Westmorland churches,<ref name=visit /> 
* the mural depicting [[rushbearing]] (a ceremony which is held on the first Saturday in July). The mural was created during World War II when the [[Royal College of Art]] was based in Ambleside.<ref name="EH">{{NHLE | num=1244784 | desc=Church of St Mary | access-date=17 March 2014}}</ref><ref>Leslie Duxbury (2008), ''Bohemians in Exile: The Royal College of Art in Ambleside, 1940-1945''. "Bohemians in Exile" was the title of a 2011 exhibition at the [[Armitt Library|Armitt Museum]].</ref> 
Early 20th century Vicar, Henry Adamson Thompson, is depicted on the right of the mural.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Adamson_Thompson|title=Adamson Thompson |website=Ancestry.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitcumbria.com/wp-content/gallery/ambleside-st-marys-church/3-ambleside-stmary-rb.jpg|format=JPG|title=Photographic image|website=Visitcumbria.com|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref> His body and that of his only son, Henry Lionel Francess Thompson &ndash; killed in World War II &ndash; share the same part of the churchyard.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204814649264407&id=1183757195&set=a.3504675653958.2163447.1183757195&ref=m_notif&notif_t=like&actorid=1453201640|title=Log In or Sign Up to View|website=m.facebook.com}}</ref>

Other burials include Annie, [[Sophia Armitt|Sophia]] and [[Mary Louisa Armitt]].<ref name=odnbarmitt>Eileen Jay, ‘Armitt, Mary Louisa (1851–1911)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53907, accessed 13 November 2015]</ref>

===Mater Amabilis church===
The town's many decades-old Catholic Church in a traditional design is a consolidation of two churches; until 2013 nearby Grasmere held services, whose reverend, Kevan Dorgan of Windermere was translated to the consolidated parish. His predecessor, who retired, was David Duanne.