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.
History The original facility on the site was the Salop Infirmary designed by William Baker of Audlem and completed in 1745,Ionides J. "Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury, Architect and ‘Inventor of Cast Iron Bridges’". The Dog Rose Press, Ludlow 1999, pp. 31-32 converting a mansion named Broom Hall which had been a local house of Corbet Kynaston.
The infirmary was completely rebuilt to a design by Edward Haycock, with occasional inspections by Sir Robert Smirke, in the Greek Revival styleIn Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.25. in 1830. An additional wing was completed in 1870 and it was renamed the Royal Salop Infirmary in 1914, after a visit by King George V.In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.45. A further wing, with beds for 8 maternity cases and 22 children was begun in 1925 and completed in 1927.In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, pp.56, 58.
It joined the National Health Service in 1948. The hospital was closed, after structural difficulties were experienced, on 20 November 1977.In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.93. 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.
Notable staff of Royal Salop Infirmary Job Orton, dissenting minister, was first board secretary of the infirmary in 1745-47.In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.8. William Farr, statistician, was originally employed as a dresser (surgeon's assistant) there in 1826. Thomas Bucknall Lloyd, later Archdeacon of Salop, had been hospital chaplain. Charles Maude, later Archdeacon of Salop, was appointed hospital chaplain in 1901.
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External links The Parade Shops