The Stranger in Shrewsbury: or, an historical and descriptive view of Shrewsbury and its environsHowell, Thomas J.
History
The Stranger in Shrewsbury: or, an historical and descriptive view of Shrewsbury and its environs
Howell, Thomas J.
Shrewsbury (England) -- Description and travel
The hospital is a respectable building of brick. Over the pediment, in
the centre, is a turret, in which is a clock. In this part is a chapel,
used also for a school room, and houses for the master and mistress. On
each side are six small houses for the poor.
The will of Mr. Millington appointed a schoolmaster and mistress, who
have each a house and £40. per annum, and the master £10. additional for
keeping the accounts. A chaplain, with a stipend of £25. Twelve poor
men or women chosen from the single housekeepers of Frankwell, or the
part of St. Chad’s parish nearest to it, to each of whom is allotted an
apartment in the hospital, consisting of two comfortable rooms, a small
garden, a gown or coat, given on St. Thomas’s day, a load of coals on All
Saints’ day, and an allowance of £6. per annum. Gowns or coats and
40_s._ each, are also dispensed every year to ten poor single
housekeepers resident in Frankwell, and when a vacancy happens in the
hospital, the person who has longest received the garments is elected to
it. The hospitallers and out-pensioners have also two twopenny loaves
weekly. Twenty poor boys and as many poor girls, born in Frankwell, are
completely clothed twice annually, and receive their education in the
hospital. When arrived at the age of fourteen, the boys are apprenticed,
£7. 10_s._ is given with each, and £2. 10_s._ is expended in cloathing:
£5. is also presented to those, who at the expiration of their first
year’s apprenticeship, can bring a certificate of their good behaviour.
The girls are allowed £5. on going out apprentices.
Two exhibitions of £40. a year each are founded for students of St.
Magdalen’s College, Cambridge. Those who have been originally scholars
on the hospital foundation, claim the preference, or one born in
Frankwell, and educated in the free grammar school is most eligible.
Allatt’s School
Was erected in 1800, at the bottom of Swan Hill, pursuant to the will of
the late Mr. John Allatt, formerly chamberlain to the corporation of
Shrewsbury.
The structure is of free-stone, and contains two houses for the master
and mistress, connected with the school rooms by arcades. It cost about
£2000, erected from a plan by Mr. Haycock. The interest of the residue
of Mr. Allatt’s property, maintains a schoolmaster and mistress, and
educates twenty poor boys, and as many girls, whose parents have not
received parochial relief. The children are taught reading, writing, and
arithmetic, and the girls sewing; they are cloathed once a year, and at a
proper age apprenticed. Twenty coats and eighty good stuff gowns are
also distributed annually, to that number of poor old men and women.
Bowler’s School,
In the Back Lane, near the Wyle Cop, is a plain brick building, founded
in 1724, pursuant to the will of Mr. Thomas Bowdler, alderman and draper,
for instructing, cloathing, and apprenticing poor children, of the parish
of St. Julian. The dress is blue.
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