May 2024 news

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Devon coastal gothic house on national Endangered Buildings list 2024

St Martins (formerly Roslyn Hoe), Ilfracombe, Devon Grade II, WM Robbins of Ilfracombe, 1880

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

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

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