IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Town Walls, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1TP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Town Walls, SY1 1TP by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (1583 Images Found)
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The former Bowdler's School building
The building is dated 1724, and was originally founded by a local man named Thomas Bowdler, Mayor of the town in the very early 18th century. It attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101246464-former-bowdlers-school-shrewsbury#.YrQMA3bMI2w & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246464 in 1953, and is currently in use by a dental practice.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 22 May 2022
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Bowdler's House Dental Practice, Shrewsbury
Viewed from Beeches Lane. Despite the name of the dental practice, this building was originally Bowlder's School. The stone above the doorway shows Founded by Thomas Bowdler 1724.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 15 Oct 2013
0.01 miles
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Former school, Town Walls, Shrewsbury
Built as Bowdler's School in 1724, its charmingly crowded facade typical of the date. Grade II listed.
Now it appears to house a dental practice and flats.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.01 miles
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The Henry Tudor mansion on Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury
The timber framed building here is where Henry Tudor stayed before the Battle of Bosworth. It dated to the 1430's based on dendrochronology of the timbers, and would have been the sort of placean important person may lodge in by 1485.
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell
Taken: 4 Jul 2012
0.01 miles
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Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury in 1987
The Tudor Galleries form part of the large timbered building.
Image: © John Baker
Taken: 9 Apr 1987
0.01 miles
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Henry Tudor House in Shrewsbury
Restaurant and brasserie in Barracks Passage. The Grade I listed
late 15th century building was reputed to have got its name when
Henry Tudor stayed at the site in 1485 on his way to victory
over Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 31 May 2014
0.01 miles
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The Trotting Horse Building in Barracks Passage, off Wyle Cop
Variously known in the past as the Lion Tap, and the Trotting Horse building, this fine range of timber framed construction is effectively the rear portion of Image on Wyle Cop.
It dates from the early 15th century, a date of 1426 being confirmed by tree-ring study of some of the oak timbers. Grade I listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101246462-the-trotting-horse-building-shrewsbury#.Yf_0k-rP3IU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246462 in 1972.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 14 Aug 2021
0.01 miles