A guide, descriptive and historical, through the Town of Shrewsbury

by W. A. Leighton

THE GUILD HOUSE OF THE FRATERNITY OF THE HOLY CROSS,

which anciently existed in the church of St. Alkmund.

This curious tenement, now occupied as several dwellings, forms two sides of a square, and with the exception of its square windows, entirely of Gothic architecture of the fifteenth century.

The projecting stories are supported by elegant springers, enriched like the principal timbers, with carvings of small pointed arches, with trefoil and other ornaments. A cloister of obtusely pointed wooden arches, overspread with rich carvings and delicate mouldings, runs along the ground-story of the front.

Contiguous to St. Alkmund’s is