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Jones's Mansion, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury
Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury (image)
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This is the rear of a very fine house, with a prominent two storey high oriel window, built in 1575 by William Weale and later sold to Thomas Jones, a very prominent draper who was Shrewsbury's first mayor in 1638. (Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
This is the rear of a very fine house, with a prominent two storey high oriel window, built in 1575 by William Weale and later sold to Thomas Jones, a very prominent draper who was Shrewsbury's first mayor in 1638. (Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
Jones’s Mansion, Wyle Cop contained an oriel window built by William Weale in 1575. Thomas Jones was probably the richest man in Shrewsbury in the early 17th Century. He was bailiff several times and the town's first mayor in 1638.