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Description: | The asylum was founded in 1839 by Rev Herbert Smith, a Church of England minister who was a constant thorn in the side of the establishment. It survived in its first incarnation for only two years. In 1847, Smith floated the idea of converting the Tudor-style building to a college for preparing candidates for the office of Deacon in the Church of England. This failed to materialise and by 1851, as Norfolk House, the property was the residence of Herbert Smith (born in Norfolk) and his family. Somewhat later, the property was restored as an almshouse for the aged poor, being sold in 1887 by Smith's daughter to new proprietors who enlarged the property to found the Barlow and Ellyett Homes.
All the properties shown in the print exist today. St James Church was consecrated in August 1836: architect, W Hinves. The houses in the far background are now nos. 1 and 3 Bellemoor Road. The house facing us, between the asylum and the church, was Cambrian Lodge ( now 123 Church Street).
This development followed the enclosure of Shirley Common in the early 1830s. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | building church W Hinves Norfolk House asylum St James Shirley Shirley Common Bellemoor Road almshouse Barlow and Ellyett Homes Herbert Smith Church Street Cambrian Lodge | Temporal: | start=1839-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Skelton | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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