The Parade Shops, formerly the Royal Salop Infirmary, is a specialist shopping centre at St Mary's Place in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
History
The original facility on the site was the Salop Infirmary designed by William Baker of Audlem and completed in 1745,[1][2] converting a mansion named Broom Hall which had been a local house of Corbet Kynaston.[3] The infirmary was completely rebuilt to a design by Edward Haycock, with occasional inspections by Sir Robert Smirke, in the Greek Revival style[4] in 1830.[1] An additional wing was completed in 1870 and it was renamed the Royal Salop Infirmary in 1914,[5] after a visit by King George V.[6] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[5] The hospital was closed, after structural difficulties were experienced, on 20 November 1977.[7] After services transferred to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital by 1979, the Royal Salop Infirmary buildings were acquired by a developer who converted it into a shopping centre in the early 1980s.[8]
Notable staff of Royal Salop Infirmary
- Job Orton, dissenting minister, was first board secretary of the infirmary in 1745-47.[9][10]
- William Farr, statistician, was originally employed as a dresser (surgeon's assistant) there in 1826.[11]
- Thomas Bucknall Lloyd, later Archdeacon of Salop, had been hospital chaplain.[12]
- Charles Maude, later Archdeacon of Salop, was appointed hospital chaplain in 1901.[13]
References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "The Parade Shopping Centre (1254655)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ Ionides J. "Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury, Architect and ‘Inventor of Cast Iron Bridges’". The Dog Rose Press, Ludlow 1999, pp. 31-32
- ^ Keeling-Roberts, Margaret (1981). In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary. North Shropshire Printing Company. p. 9. ISBN 0-9507849-0-7.
- ^ In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.25.
- ^ a b "Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury". National Archives. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.45.
- ^ In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.93.
- ^ "Phil Gillam: On Parade at a favourite Shrewsbury spot". Shropshire Star. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.8.
- ^ Dickens, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. p. 52. ISBN 0-903802-37-6.
- ^ Koch, Tom (2011). Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground. University of Chicago Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0226449357.
- ^ "Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.
- ^ Mate, C.H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical: Part II, Biographical. Mate. p. 99.