The Parade Shopping Centre

The Parade Shops
Location	Shrewsbury
Coordinates	52°42′31″N2°45′03″W / 52.7085°N 2.7507°W / 52.7085; -2.7507
Built	1830
Architect	Edward Haycock and Sir Robert Smirke
Website	www.paradeshops.co.uk
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	30 May 1969
Reference no.	1254655
Location of The Parade Shops in Shropshire

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] A further wing, with beds for 8 maternity cases and 22 children was begun in 1925 and completed in 1927. ^[7]

It joined the National Health Service in 1948. ^[5] The hospital was closed, after structural difficulties were experienced, on 20 November 1977. ^[8] 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. ^[9]

Notable staff of Royal Salop Infirmary

• Job Orton, dissenting minister, was first board secretary of the infirmary in 1745-47. ^{[10] [11]}
• William Farr, statistician, was originally employed as a dresser (surgeon's assistant) there in 1826. ^[12]
• Thomas Bucknall Lloyd, later Archdeacon of Salop, had been hospital chaplain. ^[13]
• Charles Maude, later Archdeacon of Salop, was appointed hospital chaplain in 1901. ^[14]

References

1. Historic England. "The Parade Shopping Centre (1254655)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 29 September 2019.
2. Ionides J. "Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury, Architect and ‘Inventor of Cast Iron Bridges’". The Dog Rose Press, Ludlow 1999, pp. 31-32
3. 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.
4. In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.25.
5. "Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury". National Archives. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
6. In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.45.
7. In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, pp.56, 58.
8. In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.93.
9. "Phil Gillam: On Parade at a favourite Shrewsbury spot". Shropshire Star. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
10. In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.8.
11. Dickens, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. p. 52. ISBN   0-903802-37-6.
12. Koch, Tom (2011). Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground. University of Chicago Press. p. 161. ISBN   978-0226449357.
13. "Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.
14. Mate, C.H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical: Part II, Biographical. Mate. p. 99.

External links

• The Parade Shops