Thomas Ambler
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Thomas Ambler (1838 – 1920) was an English architect, living and working in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Ambler was a friend of the Mayor of Leeds and Member of Parliament, John Barran, who became his patron.[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/leeds/8.html St Paul's House, Leeds, by Thomas Ambler], VictorianWeb.org. Retrieved 26 January 2014. Cited from Building a Great Victorian City: Leeds Architects and Architecture (2011) by Janet Douglas.
Among Ambler's surviving works are the Grade II* listed Moorish factory (now offices) of St Paul's House in Park Square, Leeds, Grade II listed buildings on the south side of Boar Lane, St James's Hall in New York Street, and the Grade II listed Alf Cooke printworks in Hunslet Road which now forms part of the Printworks Campus of Leeds City College.{{Cite web|url = http://www.leedscitycollege.ac.uk/index.php/about/printworks/|title = Leeds City College Printworks Campus|accessdate = 13 August 2014|publisher = Leeds City College|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140723114407/http://www.leedscitycollege.ac.uk/index.php/about/printworks/|archivedate = 23 July 2014}}
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- {{NHLE |num=1256126 |desc=St Paul's House |accessdate=22 March 2009}}
- {{NHLE |num=1375231 |desc=St James's Hall |accessdate=22 March 2009}}
- {{NHLE |num=1255878 |desc=1-13 Boar Lane |accessdate=22 March 2009}}
- {{NHLE |num=1375357 |desc=10-20 Duncan Street |accessdate=22 March 2009}}
- {{NHLE|num = 1255574|desc = Alf Cooke Ltd Packaging (Cookes Printers)|grade = II|accessdate = 13 August 2014}}
- 'Thomas Ambler (1838–1920)' by Janet Douglas (historian) in Christopher Webster (ed.) Building a Great Victorian City: Leeds Architects and Architecture 1790-1914 (2011).
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Category:19th-century English architects
Category:Architects from Leeds
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