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Watch the Public Meeting with Griff Rhys Jones to Save Liverpool Street Station 23 November 2023

Decision on Bishopsgate Bathhouse proves City of London needs to step up its heritage protection 22 November 2023

Griff Rhys Jones to host Save Liverpool Street Station Public Meeting 21 November 2023 09 November 2023

How do I object to the plans to partially demolish Liverpool Street Station? 30 October 2023

Griff Rhys Jones calls for public donations to fight Network Rail and Sellar’s planning application which will mean ‘no listed building is safe’ 25 October 2023

Annual Appeal 2023: Save Liverpool Street Station! 23 October 2023

The Society successfully lists elements of Worcester's railway boom 11 October 2023

Victorian Society votes to promote sustainable repair and reuse of historic buildings 10 October 2023

Victorian Society identify Norfolk lodge by architect Anthony Salvin and secure its listing 28 September 2023

Nominations for The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2024 are now open! 22 September 2023

The Victorian Society urges Government to ensure Reading Gaol’s sale allows public access to important part of the UK’s queer history 13 September 2023

Could you be our next Chair of the Board of Trustees? 09 September 2023

​Government commits to consult on making it harder to demolish locally important buildings after the loss of ‘Crooked House’ 07 September 2023

Hornblotton House in Somerset is successfully listed 06 September 2023

​Sir John Betjeman's birthday sees launch of major fundraising appeal to Save Liverpool Street Station 23 August 2023

Would you like to organise events for the Victorian Society? 18 August 2023

Network Rail urged not to demolish rare surviving Victorian ticket office in Northumberland 09 August 2023

Victorian Society’s online talk series explores what can be learnt from 19th Century railways and their legacy today 09 August 2023

Victorian Society secures listing for Norman Evill house in Stanwix Carlisle 26 July 2023

Victorian Society secures listing for church in Ruswarp North Yorkshire  24 July 2023

​Presentation of the Birmingham & West Midlands Group's Conservation Award 2022 24 July 2023

City of London must refuse permission for tower over the top of listed Victorian Turkish Baths to avoid being branded failing on heritage protection 18 July 2023

Latest edition of The Victorian is out now - July 2023 11 July 2023

Fire at Ushaw involving Grade II* St Aloysius Chapel and the Ushaw Junior House 10 July 2023

Victorian Society secures listing for eye-catching former bank in Gateshead 03 July 2023

​Victorian Society secures listing for the oldest surviving cricket pavilion in the country located at a first-class cricket ground 29 June 2023

The Victorian Society urges Preston Council not to let flats plan for former Park Hotel extension ruin historic views 28 June 2023

Griff Rhys Jones launches 2023 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 20 June 2023

Griff Rhys Jones and heritage campaigners to ask Michael Gove to decide Liverpool Street Station’s future 19 June 2023

Life-saving landmark Somerset tower in Rockwell Green features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

The Coach and Horses historic hotel in Wallsend, Sting’s home town, features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2023 18 June 2023

The Constitutional Club one of Lincoln’s finest Victorian buildings features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

Blackborough House mansion that became a hostel for the homeless on Top Ten Endangered buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

Soldier's Point in Anglesey features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

North West’s only historic Turkish baths features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

Liverpool Street Station on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

Two Norwich engineering marvels that saved lives feature on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

Former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union features in Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

St Andrew's Church in Temple Grafton trying to raise £250,000 features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 18 June 2023

LISSCA sends letter to the Editor of The Times 10 May 2023

Victorian Society's amendments removing permitted development rights for demolition debated in the House of Lords 28 April 2023

Book tickets for our AGM weekend and discover Bath's Victorian heritage this October 27 April 2023

10 difficult questions to ask about the Liverpool Street Station demolition plans! 19 April 2023

​The Victorian Society encourages people to object to insensitive 10 storey tower at Gloucester's historic docks 29 March 2023

City of London’s protection of heritage and the environment questioned as tower overshadowing Leadenhall Market approved 15 March 2023

Rent office space at our Grade II listed headquarters in Chiswick, London 14 March 2023

The Victorian Society objects to insensitive redevelopment of historic brewery maltings in Dorchester 10 March 2023

The latest Victorian magazine is now available to our members 03 March 2023

Victorian Society’s climate emergency push to require planning permission for demolition 03 March 2023

The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic Somerset rectory designed by famous architects to prevent its demolition 17 February 2023

The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic West Sussex rectory designed by a famous architect to prevent demolition 16 February 2023

Tettenhall Court one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in Wolverhampton successfully listed 15 February 2023

Little Barford Manor House in Bedfordshire successfully listed 15 February 2023

Birmingham City University Wins 2022 West Midlands Conservation Award 11 February 2023

The Victorian Society objects to plans to demolish historic carriage showrooms in Manchester 09 February 2023

Relaunched Liverpool Street Station Campaign names Griff Rhys Jones as President and asks public to sign petition 03 February 2023

The Pevsner Architectural Guides in the 21st Century 24 January 2023

Liverpool Street Station Development Consultation Begins in London 18 January 2023

The Victorian Society welcomes the charity's new Media and Communications Manager 12 January 2023

Liverpool Street Station listing revisions should spell end for demolition plans 08 December 2022

Don't miss your chance to object to demolition plans at Liverpool Street Station! 23 November 2022

Victorian Society urges Westminster Council not to remove historic gaslights 11 November 2022

VicSoc Welsh Heritage Day in Cardiff Saturday 3 September 19 July 2022

The Victorian Society AGM in Nottingham 18 July 2022

​Political chaos must not delay plans to restore the Palace of Westminster 12 July 2022

Nominations open for the 2022 Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 22 June 2022

​Ipswich Museum under threat from historically insensitive redevelopment 22 June 2022

Listing Success in Manchester 23 May 2022

Young Victorian Committee Elected 10 May 2022

Sandwell Council Presented The Victorian Society’s West Midlands Group’s Conservation Award 03 May 2022

Victorian Society objects to 'badly thought-through' demolition of Victorian Villa in conservation area 21 April 2022

​Successful listing in Birmingham, the Samuel Heath and Sons Head Offices (1888, David Henry Ward) 14 April 2022

​Darlaston Police Station (1899-1902, Charles William Davies Joynson) successfully listed 14 April 2022

Our new Events Coordinator 12 April 2022

​Listing success for Norfolk Convent 24 March 2022

The Threat to Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage: An Open Letter ​To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Olga Borisovna Lyubimova 18 March 2022

​Theatres in the Spotlight - Spring 2022 Edition of the Victorian Magazine Out Now 09 March 2022

Midlands Industrial Association Limited wins Victorian Society Birmingham and West Midlands 2021 Conservation Award 22 February 2022

​Surprise ruling in case of G. E. Street’s St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley, Oxfordshire 11 February 2022

We are hiring: The Victorian Society is looking for an Events Co-ordinator 28 January 2022

The Victorian Society's 2021 Top 10 Endangered Buildings 13 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, Grade 2 Listed, Oatley and Skinner, 1902-1908 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Church of St Helen, Biscathorpe, Lincolnshire, Grade II* Listed, W. A. Nicholson, 1847 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Oldham Equitable Cooperative Society (Hill Stores), Oldham, Grade 2 listed, Thomas Taylor, 1900 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Minley Home Farm, Hampshire, Unlisted, Arthur Castings, 1896 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Jones & Higgins Department Store, London, Unlisted, Henry Jarvis & Sons, 1894 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Indoor Market, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Unlisted, Architect Unknown, (1897) 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Icknield Street School, Birmingham, Grade II* Listed, by J.H. Chamberlain of Martin and Chamberlain, 1883 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Healings Flour Mill and Warehouses, Tewkesbury, Grade II, by W H James of Tewkesbury for Samuel Healing and Son, 1865-6 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Horncliffe House, Lancashire, Grade-II listed, Architect Unknown, 1869 10 December 2021

Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2021: Coal Drops, Halifax, Grade II, Architect unknown, 1874 10 December 2021

​Remembering Geoff Brandwood 30 November 2021

The Victorian Society is Updating - Joining the fight to save Victorian and Edwardian Heritage is even easier 12 October 2021

Andrew Saint: London 1870-1914: a City at its Zenith - Book Sale Now on 23 September 2021

Book your place now for our online talk series: Building the Victorian and Edwardian terraced house 20 September 2021

Want to save a threatened historic building? Nominate it for our top ten endangered list 2021 12 August 2021

Victorian Society and Georgian Group unite to oppose demolition of listed buildings which tell the story of Manchester’s past 29 July 2021

Victorian Society saddened by the loss of Liverpool’s World Heritage status 21 July 2021

Victorian Society calls for better protection of UK's World Heritage sites 13 July 2021

Victorian Society listing success for lodge and gateway in park associated with David Bowie 23 June 2021

Council urged not to destroy last pub on historic ‘golden mile’ 28 May 2021

Victorian Society urges Kinmel Hall’s new buyer to carry out critical repairs 19 May 2021

South Cambridgeshire District Council urged to stop Hotel Felix demolition 17 May 2021

Victorian Society saves country house delisted by accident from demolition 04 May 2021

Victorian Society’s Birmingham & West Midlands Group commend restoration of Victorian school saved from demolition 24 April 2021

Crunch time for rotting ‘Versailles of Wales’ as Victorian Society urges suitable buyers to come forward 18 March 2021

Fight to save building designed by Sherlock Holmes author reflecting his spiritualist beliefs 11 March 2021

Victorian Society urges Secretary of State to prevent harm to some of London’s most important Victorian buildings 09 March 2021

Virtual book launch: AWN Pugin by David Frazer Lewis 02 March 2021

Victorian Society urges Mayor to reject Brixton’s Hondo Tower on environmental grounds 08 February 2021

Worcester’s Vesta Tilley House shouldn’t face the wrecking ball due to non-listing 29 January 2021

Listing success for Victorian Society’s Leicester Group 29 January 2021

Protect London’s historic heart from skyscrapers’ uncontrolled spread 28 January 2021

Victorian Society succeeds in having historic bank Grade II-listed 26 January 2021

Victorian Society slams damaging changes to Preston’s landmark Grade I-listed Harris Museum 07 January 2021

The Victorian Society back local campaign to stop towering 20-storey development in Brixton 05 January 2021

High Court quashes planning permission for skyscraper after Victorian Society advice ignored 11 December 2020

Victorian Society asks Secretary of State to call in Exeter’s Harlequins development 10 December 2020

Listing success for Victorian Society’s Birmingham Group 03 December 2020

Victorian Society applies for listings to protect Worcester’s historic cityscape 19 November 2020

Herefordshire Council must reject demolition of historic rectory to reach 2030 environmental targets   11 November 2020

Victorian Society comments ‘should not be brushed aside’ says judge in Birmingham skyscraper challenge 05 November 2020

Victorian society expresses concerns over proposed planning changes 30 October 2020

Listing success for Victorian Society’s Leicester Group 22 October 2020

Victorian Society's Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list 2020 30 September 2020

Joe O'Donnell appointed new Director of the Victorian Society 10 September 2020

Win for the Victorian Society as Liverpool zip wire blocked after our legal challenge 03 September 2020

Victorian Society legal challenge to Liverpool Council's zip wire decision 19 August 2020

Victorian Society slams Liverpool Council’s approval of zip wire 20 July 2020

Victorian Society celebrates as plans are approved to finally restore Smithfield Market 24 June 2020

Victorian Society urges councils and owners to protect historic buildings from arson 28 May 2020

Victorian Society condemns Birmingham police station's needless destruction 27 May 2020

Partial demolition plans for St Joseph's in Preston recommended for approval 01 May 2020

Victorian Society calls for public inquiry into losing a key part of Bristol's waterside heritage 12 March 2020

Victorian Society calls for reuse of Bradford's historic Fountain Hall 27 February 2020

Birmingham & West Midlands group's 2019 Conservation Award winner announced 10 February 2020

Historic Exeter deserves better 06 February 2020

Victorian Society winter lecture series 10 January 2020

Victorian Society oppose unnecessary loss of Preston’s gothic Victorian orphanage 10 December 2019

Who will protect Sheffield’s historic buildings from circling developers? Victorian Society slams reports of proposal to slash planning department 18 November 2019

Victorian Society announce Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings 2019 13 September 2019

The Victorian Society's 2019 Top 10 Endangered Buildings 11 September 2019

Save the historic Watson's Hotel Building 21 June 2019

Fisons Factory fire 10 April 2019

Towering office block would be a shattering blow to Southwark’s industrial heritage 09 April 2019

The Birmingham & West Midlands group of the Victorian Society donates £2000 to Birmingham Cathedral restoration project 08 April 2019

Save the Still and Star! 21 March 2019

Presentation to winner of 2017 Conservation Award 22 January 2019

Save Conan Doyle’s last building from demolition 14 December 2017

Fight for Bath Abbey pews culminates in Consistory Court hearing 11 December 2017

Irresponsible development razes Tudno Castle Hotel 09 December 2017

Grade I St Botolph’s to keep chancel fixtures following heritage battle 08 December 2017

Defeat for Bath’s heritage as Abbey pew removal is permitted 05 December 2017

Not over yet: Victorian Society appeals against Bath Abbey judgement 04 December 2017

Save our gasholders! Iconic skyline at The Oval at risk of being lost 03 December 2017

Griff Rhys Jones appointed President of the Victorian Society 02 December 2017

West Midlands Group 2017 Conservation Award winner announced 01 December 2017

Fison’s Fertiliser Factory in Bramford, Suffolk on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 September 2017

New Tiger’s Head pub in South East London on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 September 2017

Victorian Society marks 10 years of endangered buildings campaign with new top 10 list 12 September 2017

Chance’s Glassworks in Smethwick on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Derby’s Great Northern Railway Warehouse Derby on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Feversham Street First School on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Llanelli’s Buckley’s Brewery Maltings on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Ince-in-Makerfield cemetery chapels near Wigan on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Folkestone’s Leas Pavilion on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

St Andrew’s Church in Huddersfield on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

St Helen’s Cannington bottle shop on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 12 February 2017

Top Ten endangered buildings list highlights neglect outside South East 14 September 2016

Cardiff’s old Bute Road Station on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Philip Webb’s Red Barns in Redcar on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Wakefield’s Clayton Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Stafford’s Old Library on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Preston’s Mount Street Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

St Joseph’s Seminary near Wigan on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Wigan cotton mill on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Grimsby mill tower on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

St Paul’s Church, Chester on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Barnstaple’s Oliver Buildings on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 13 September 2016

Brighton’s Madeira Terrace on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings 15 September 2015

Carlisle hotel on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Kinmel Hall in Conwy on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Ipswich’s Tolly Cobbold brewery on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Hunslet Mill and Victoria Works in Leeds on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

London’s Ladywell Baths on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Overstone Hall, Northampton, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Sheerness Boat Store, Kent, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Wolverhampton’s St Luke’s Church on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Griff Rhys Jones launches 2015 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 15 September 2015

Sheffield’s missing Crimean War Monument 07 October 2014

Trentham Hall, Staffordshire 07 October 2014

Crumlin Navigation Colliery 07 October 2014

Abney Park Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Newington 07 October 2014

Tonedale Mill, Somerset 07 October 2014

All Souls Church, Hastings, East Sussex 07 October 2014

Cardiff Coal Exchange 07 October 2014

Hartlepool’s former Wesley Chapel 07 October 2014

Greengate Public Baths, Salford 07 October 2014

Hammerhead crane, Isle of Wight 07 October 2014

Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings 2014 revealed 07 October 2014

Palace Theatre, Plymouth 16 October 2013

Royal Victorian Pavilion in Ramsgate 16 October 2013

Winteringham School and School Board Offices, Grimsby, Lincolnshire 16 October 2013

St John’s Church, Crawshawbooth, Lancashire 16 October 2013

Haggerston Baths, Hackney, London 16 October 2013

Fenton Town Hall, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent 16 October 2013

Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester 16 October 2013

Heeley Bank School, Sheffield 16 October 2013

Accrington Conservative Club, Lancashire 16 October 2013

Palace Theatre, Swansea 16 October 2013

Revealed: top ten endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings 2013 16 October 2013

Revealed: nation’s Top Ten most endangered buildings 2012 17 October 2012

Wingfield Station, Derbyshire 17 October 2012

Langton Dock Pumphouse, Bootle, Merseyside 17 October 2012

Holborn Circus, London 17 October 2012

Hendrefoilan House, Sketty, Swansea 17 October 2012

Agecroft Chapel, Salford 17 October 2012

Waterloo Hotel and Grill, Smethwick, West Midlands 17 October 2012

Mechanics Institute, Swindon 17 October 2012

St Peter and St Paul, Birch, Essex 17 October 2012

Butterley Spillway, Marsden, West Yorkshire 17 October 2012

Ipswich’s former County Hall 17 October 2012

The cemetery chapels survey 23 November 2011

Temple Mill, Leeds 10 October 2011

Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire 09 October 2011

Wansford Station, Peterborough 09 October 2011

Crumpsall and Cheetham District Library 09 October 2011

Ancoats Dispensary 09 October 2011

Former South Eastern Railway offices, London 09 October 2011

Manningham Baths 09 October 2011

Cricket Pavilion, Bletchley 09 October 2011

Former YMCA building, Merthyr Tydfil 09 October 2011

The Old Rectory, Columb Major 09 October 2011

Hammerton School, Ouseburn Road, Darnall, Sheffield 09 October 2011

The Victorian Society declares Manningham Pool a heritage crime scene 08 July 2011

Give Manningham Pool one last chance! 23 June 2011

Tell Bradford Council why the pool must stay open! 20 April 2011

Saturday free for all at threatened Bradford pool 06 April 2011

Historic London pool restored 10 March 2011

Council urged not to close historic Bradford pool 23 February 2011

Former Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road, Birmingham 11 October 2010

Normansfield Hospital, Kingston Road, Teddington, Middlesex 11 October 2010

The Grimsby Ice Factory, Gorton Street, The Docks, Grimsby 11 October 2010

Bradgate House Stables, Bradgate Hill, Groby, Leicestershire 11 October 2010

30 Euston Square, London 11 October 2010

The Unitarian Chapel, Upper Brook Street, Manchester 11 October 2010

Old Fire Station, Court Road, Barry, South Wales 11 October 2010

Former Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent 11 October 2010

Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park, Tuebrook, Liverpool 11 October 2010

Council urged not to close historic Staffordshire pool 11 January 2010

Grand finale of 1000 Year Swim 02 September 2008

Why the 1000 year swim? 01 September 2008

When? It’s all over! 01 September 2008

What people have been saying about the 1000 year swim challenge 01 September 2008

Health Hydro, Swindon 27 August 2008

St Luke’s pool, Brighton 27 August 2008

Manningham baths, Bradford 06 August 2008

Queensbury pool, Bradford 05 August 2008

Batley baths 05 August 2008

Camberwell baths 30 July 2008

Camberwell baths 30 July 2008

Beverley Road baths, Hull 28 July 2008

Bramley baths, Leeds 25 July 2008

Campaigners fight on for London’s longest-serving pool 11 June 2008