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The Parade Shops
Location	Shrewsbury
Coordinates	52°42′31″N 2°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.

History

The original facility on the site was the Salop Infirmary designed by William Baker of Audlem and completed in 1745, 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 style 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. It joined the National Health Service in 1948. The hospital was closed, after structural difficulties were experienced, on 20 November 1977. 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.
• 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.

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, p.93.
8. "Phil Gillam: On Parade at a favourite Shrewsbury spot". Shropshire Star. 7 September 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
9. In Retrospect: A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary, p.8.
10. Dickens, Gordon (1987). An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire. Shropshire Libraries. p. 52. ISBN 0-903802-37-6.
11. Koch, Tom (2011). Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground. University of Chicago Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0226449357.
12. "Death of Archdeacon Lloyd". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 28 February 1896. p. 6.
13. Mate, C.H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical: Part II, Biographical. Mate. p. 99.

External links

• The Parade Shops

• Economy of Shropshire
• Shopping centres in Shropshire
• Buildings and structures in Shrewsbury