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]
Notable staff of Royal Salop Infirmary
Job Orton, dissenting minister, was first board secretary of the infirmary in 1745-47.[9][10]
William Farr, statistician, was originally employed as a dresser (surgeon's assistant) there in 1826.[11]
^Ionides J. "Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury, Architect and ‘Inventor of Cast Iron Bridges’". The Dog Rose Press, Ludlow 1999, pp. 31-32
^Keeling-Roberts, Margaret (1981). In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary. North Shropshire Printing Company. p. 9. ISBN0-9507849-0-7.
^In Retrospect, A Short History of The Royal Salop Infirmary, p.25.
