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Rare Victorian tennis pavilion in Scarborough is on Victorian Society's Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
The former Bramcote Tennis Pavilion, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Grade II, John Hall, 1885
Last chance to preserve one of the West Midlands key industrial heritage sites as it appears on Victorian Society's Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2024
Chances Glassworks, Smethwick, Sandwell. Scheduled Monument, comprising nine Grade II structures, 1847 – 1860
Cardiff Coal Exchange on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for the second time
Cardiff Coal Exchange, Butetown, Cardiff, Glamorgan. Grade II*, Seward & Thomas, 1884-86
Devon coastal gothic house on national Endangered Buildings list 2024
St Martins (formerly Roslyn Hoe), Ilfracombe, Devon Grade II, WM Robbins of Ilfracombe, 1880
Liverpool vicarage and hall on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
St Agnes’ Vicarage and Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside Vicarage Grade II* and Hall Grade II, Norman Shaw, 1887
People’s banqueting hall in Jesmond Dene on Victorian Society's Endangered Buildings list 2024
The Grade II Jesmond Dene Banqueting Hall in Newcastle Upon Tyne, designed by John Dobson, and extended to provide a gatehouse, reception hall and display room by Norman Shaw, 1860-62 and 1869/70 is on this year's Top Ten Endangered List 2024.
Former London school where author Vera Brittain nursed during WWI is on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
Kennington Boys’ School (Cormont Road School), Lambeth, London Grade II, Architect: T J Bailey, 1897-8
Listed former Education Department Offices in Derby on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
The Grade II listed building designed by Giles & Brookhouse and dating from 1871, is in urgent need of investment and sensitive re-use to survive.
Landmark Essex seaside building the Kursaal on Victorian Society's Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
The Grade II Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, designed by George Sherrin, is on The Victorian Society's Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2024.
Arts and Crafts Nottingham Hospital Chapel features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
St Luke’s Chapel in the grounds of Nottingham City Hospital is on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2024. The 1902 Grade II listed church designed by Arthur Marshall is currently used as a store.
Griff Rhys Jones launches 2024 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
The Top Ten Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings list 2024 has been revealed by the Victorian Society's President.
Thousands of objections lead to Sellar making changes to their plans for Liverpool Street Station
21/05/2024
The Victorian Society has strongly opposed aspects of the scheme, in particular the substantial demolition of parts of the station and the construction of a tall building supported through and cantilevered over a listed building.
James Hughes appointed new Director of the Victorian Society
08/05/2024
The Victorian Society is very pleased to announce James Hughes as its new Director.
Our West Yorkshire Group celebrates it 50th anniversary
24/04/2024
On the 24th April 1974 our founder members in West Yorkshire created a regional group of the Victorian Society to champion and protect their local endangered Victorian and Edwardian heritage.
Trelaske Lodge Lewannick in Cornwall now listed
19/04/2024
This unspoilt former lodge is now a Grade II-listed building.
The Victorian Society secures a notably rare success at consistory court
09/04/2024
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Happy Birthday, George Edmund Street! The Victorian Society celebrates the bicentenary year of architect G.E. Street
15/03/2024
This year is the bicentenary of the birth of George Edmund Street (1824 – 1881), the architect of the Royal Courts of Justice. From March to November, the Victorian Society, in association with St James the Less, Street’s Grade I listed church in Pimlico, London, are hosting a series of talks, walks, visits and a symposium in London, East Yorkshire and the West Midlands, to celebrate his work and achievements as a leader of the Gothic Revival. The Society’s magazine, The Victorian, devoted its latest edition to the architect.
The Victorian Society encourages people to object to plan to demolish agricultural outbuildings at George Eliot’s childhood farm home
05/03/2024
The Victorian Society are calling on the public to oppose the partial demolition of George Eliot's farmstead. Agricultural buildings associated with the childhood home of the 19th-century writer would be destroyed and replaced by an enlarged ‘replica’ housing the George Eliot Visitor Centre and Museum.
The Victorian Society needs a new Director
04/03/2024
The Victorian Society is seeking a new Director to start immediately.
Government launches consultation to stop the demolition of unlisted historic buildings under permitted development rights
The consultation we were promised at the height of our campaigning in 2023 to stop the demolition of unlisted historic buildings under permitted development rights is underway.
