6 WINDERMERE VILLAGE. 



Bank, and through the shady copse of The Wood 

 and St. Catherine's estates into the Troutbeck 

 road. It is a near cut to the traveller who has 

 Troutbeck or Kirkstone Pass and Ullswater in 

 view. 



WINDERMERE VILLAGE. 



The village of Windermere is like nothing that 

 is to be seen any where else. Young as the place 

 is, it has already a public news-room and library, 

 and a gallery of pictures, chiefly by resident artists, 

 and representing the scenery of the district. The 

 new buildings (and all are new) are of the dark grey 

 stone of the region, and several of them are of a 

 mediaeval style of architecture. The Rev. J. A. 

 Addison, late of Windermere, had a passion for 

 ecclesiastical architecture ; and his example has been 

 a good deal followed. There is the Church of 

 St. Mary, and there are the schools belonging to 

 it, with their steep roofs of curiously-shaped slates, 

 both of which the Parsonage* overlooks. There is 

 also the new College of St. Mary, standing in a fine 

 position, between the main road and the descent to 

 the lake. This College, — which may be distin- 

 guished by its square tower, — was originally in- 

 tended as a place of education for the sons of the 

 clergy; but having proved unsuccessful in that 

 form, it is now established on an entirely new 

 basis, and, under the management of G. Hale 

 Puckle, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, 



* It has been found most convenient to give only the names of 

 the houses, throughout this volume. If the traveller is curious 

 to know those of the dwellers in them, he will find the informa- 

 tion in a table at the en<H 



