| HER Number (PRN): | 62431 |
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| Name: | Phillipss Passage, Duns Shut etc |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Protected Status: | Conservation Area: Shrewsbury |
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Monument Type(s):
- ALLEY (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)
Summary
This site represents: an alley of medieval to post medieval date.
| Parish: | Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ41SE |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 4918 1244 |
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Related records
| 60205 | Related to: Latrine pit, Della Porta site , 1927 (Monument) |
| 60206 | Related to: Pit found at Della Porta site, 1926-27 (Monument) |
| 60123 | Related to: Really an event (not sorted yet) The Della Porta 1927 site (Monument) |
| 62440 | Related to: Street block on SW side of High Street, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 62425 | Related to: Walls of a medieval building between High St and Princess St, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
Associated Finds: None recorded
Associated Events: None recorded
Description
First recorded as Dun's Shut in 1634; Hobb's links this with the family of John Dun, resident between the High Street and Kiln Lane in an SPL Deed of 1459; it remained Dun's Shut into the 18th century, but was Gosnell's Shut by 1780, then Scoltock's Shut, then Bell Passage [<1>]. Records from redevelopment in 1926 (site 60123) of a substantial medieval building (62425) lying under three old cottages on the north-west side of the passage suggest that it may have had its origins in a private entry servicing the interior of a plot, with a possible hall lying at right angles to the High Street frontage. This was Hobbs's view. The 1459 deed relates to a tenement in Baker Row extending towards Kiln Lane, and provides for 'free ingress and egress to go and return by the entrance called le Shutte to the tenement being within the said entrance'; this document is also, according to Hobbs, the earliest recorded use of the term Shut [<1>]. Golden Cross Passage nearby provides a probable parallel example (62433) <2>
<01> Hobbs J L, 1954, Street Names of Shrewsbury, p135-136 (Monograph). SSA365.
<02> Baker Nigel J, UAD Analysis, 13/03/1997 (SMR comment). SSA20432.
Sources
| [01] | SSA365 - Monograph: Hobbs J L. 1954. Street Names of Shrewsbury. p135-136. |
| [02] | SSA20432 - SMR comment: Baker Nigel J. UAD Analysis. 13/03/1997. |
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 13 1997 12:00AM |
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