The Parade Shops | |
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Location | Shrewsbury |
Coordinates | 52°42′31″N 2°45′03″W / 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 |
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 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]