William Ingle

William Ingle
Portrait of William Ingle aged about 24 years, by Robert Mawer, in St James' Church, Boroughbridge
Born	1828 Bishop Thornton
Died	25 March 1870, aged 41 years Leeds
Nationality	British
Notable work	Architectural sculpture on: Mill Hill Chapel, 1848 Moorlands House, Leeds, 1854 Leeds Town Hall, 1854 30 Park Place, Leeds, 1865 Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, 1865 Commercial Bank, Bradford, 1868
Style	Gothic Revival Neoclassical
Movement	Aesthetic movement Romanticism Gothic Revival Neoclassicism
Spouse	Ann Elizabeth Agar

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. He was apprenticed to his uncle Robert Mawer. After Mawer's death in 1854 he worked in partnership with his aunt Catherine Mawer and his cousin Charles Mawer in the company Mawer and Ingle. Notable works by Ingle exist on Leeds Town Hall, Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield and Moorlands House, Leeds. He sometimes exhibited gentle humour in his ecclesiastical work, such as faces peering through greenery, and mischievous humour on secular buildings, such as comic rabbits and frogs among foliage. He died of tuberculosis at age 41 years, having suffered the disease for two years.