Shuts of Shrewsbury No 29 - Bellstone Court
Bellstone-(Morris Hall)

Not a passage as such, but a court. A notable court because of two things: Morris Hall and the Bell Stone. The entrance to Bellstone Court is from underneath the Old Bank Buildings on Bellstone, opposite the entrance to the Market Hall there. The gates are sometimes closed, but only when there are no businesses open inside and Morris Hall is not in use.



Inside the court there are a number of practices around, including a dentists (where I go). At the back, on the right, is the Bell Stone. A curious artifact, which I have little knowledge about - reply to this thread if you have any information.



At the top is Morris Hall. The construction you can see in the photo is actually behind it, at an address on St. John's Hill.

Charles Darwin:

"During my second year at Edinburgh I attended --'s lectures on
Geology and Zoology, but they were incredibly dull. The sole
effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as
I lived to read a book on Geology, or in any way to study the
science. Yet I feel sure that I was prepared for a philosophical
treatment of the subject; for an old Mr. Cotton in Shropshire,
who knew a good deal about rocks, had pointed out to me two or
three years previously a well-known large erratic boulder in the
town of Shrewsbury, called the "bell-stone"; he told me that
there was no rock of the same kind nearer than Cumberland or
Scotland, and he solemnly assured me that the world would come to
an end before any one would be able to explain how this stone
came where it now lay. This produced a deep impression on me,
and I meditated over this wonderful stone. So that I felt the
keenest delight when I first read of the action of icebergs in
transporting boulders, and I gloried in the progress of Geology."

http://www.darwin-literature.com/The_Autob...s_Darwin/1.html

Thanks for that. :)