William Ingle

William Ingle (1828 – 25 March 1870) was an architectural sculptor in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

He specialised in delicately undercut bas relief and small stand-alone stone sculptures of natural and imaginary flora and fauna on churches and on civic, commercial and domestic buildings.

[4] Assuming the regular pattern of apprenticeship between the ages of 14 and 21 years, Ingle was apprenticed to Robert Mawer between about 1842 and 1849.

[6] By 1861 he and his wife were living at 38 Portland Crescent, Leeds, and William described himself as a sculptor and stone carver in the Census that year.

After he died, such natural, realistic elements were no longer produced in the same delicate style, so it is reasonable to suppose that this was Ingle's work.

This plaques were to be affixed to Moorlands House, Albion Street, and 30 Park Place, both in Leeds, at a later date.

[1] At the Henry Moore Institute on 11 July 2019, Leeds Civic Trust unveiled two blue plaques in recognition of the Mawer Group.

Gravestone of Ingle's parents
Portrait of William Ingle aged about 39 years, after contracting TB , carved by Catherine Mawer. The feather in his cap celebrates his successful work on the Commercial Bank, Bradford
Blue plaque for William Ingle
Sheep's head symbolising the Fleece, or Leeds' source of income (1855) by William Ingle, on Moorlands House
Capital (1859), in faux Romanesque style, featuring green man-animal among natural foliage, in St Peter, Barton upon Humber