The Parade Shopping Centre
Historic site in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
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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]
| The Parade Shops | |
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| Location | Shrewsbury |
| Coordinates | 52.7085°N 2.7507°W |
| Built | 1830 |
| Architect | Edward Haycock and Sir Robert Smirke |
| Website | www |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 30 May 1969 |
| Reference no. | 1254655 |
  Location of The Parade Shops in Shropshire | |
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]