The Parade Shops | |
Coordinates: | 52.7085°N -2.7507°W |
Location: | Shrewsbury |
Built: | 1830 |
Architect: | Edward Haycock and Sir Robert Smirke |
Designation1: | Grade II Listed Building |
Designation1 Date: | 30 May 1969 |
Designation1 Number: | 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.
The original facility on the site was the Salop Infirmary designed by William Baker of Audlem and completed in 1745,[1] converting a mansion named Broom Hall which had been a local house of Corbet Kynaston.[2] The infirmary was completely rebuilt to a design by Edward Haycock, with occasional inspections by Sir Robert Smirke, in the Greek Revival style[3] in 1830. An additional wing was completed in 1870 and it was renamed the Royal Salop Infirmary in 1914,[4] after a visit by King George V.[5] It joined the National Health Service in 1948.[4] The hospital was closed, after structural difficulties were experienced, on 20 November 1977.[6] 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.[7]