Protecting our Victorian & Edwardian heritage

The Victorian Society is the charity championing Victorian and Edwardian buildings in England and Wales. We fight to ensure that our precious Victorian and Edwardian architecture is protected for future generations. We campaign to save Victorian and Edwardian buildings from demolition or careless alteration.

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Victorian Society celebrates approval of plans to finally restore crumbling Smithfield General Market

24/06/2020

Plans to transform the historic market into the Museum of London have been officially approved.

Nominations for Top 10 Endangered Buildings 2020 now open!

11/06/2020

The Victorian Society has opened nominations for this years Top 10 Endangered Buildings campaign

Victorian Society urges councils and owners to protect their historic buildings after a spate of arson attacks

28/05/2020

Following yet another major blaze at a listed building, pressure mounts on councils to do more to protect our precious historic buildings. The Victorian Society warns councils that we face losing many more important buildings to arson unless urgent action is taken to secure them properly.

Victorian Society condemns needless destruction of historic Birmingham police station

27/05/2020

A characterful Victorian police station in Birmingham imminently faces the wrecking ball. The historic structure, built by prominent architects, is deemed ‘inconvenient’ - standing in the way of a road-widening scheme.

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

01/05/2020

Plans to tear down parts of the Grade II-listed gothic orphanage in Preston are set to go ahead.

Victorian Society: Coronavirus update

17/03/2020

The Victorian Society is sorry to announce that due to the coronavirus outbreak we are cancelling all of our events until further notice. However, apart from event cancellations, we will be running business as usual and continuing our fight to protect our Victorian buildings.

Victorian Society calls for public inquiry as Bristol faces losing a key part of its waterside heritage

12/03/2020

The Victorian Society requests a public inquiry into the Silverthorne Lane development in a final bid to save an irreplaceable part of Bristol’s industrial heritage.

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

27/02/2020

The Victorian Society urge Bradford Council to save the remains of a historic piece of Victorian architecture currently facing demolition.

Birmingham & West Midlands group of the Victorian Society name Smethwick Council House restoration as winner of their 2019 Conservation Award

10/02/2020

The Birmingham & West Midlands group of the Victorian Society have named Sandwell Council as the winners of their 2019 Conservation Award for the restoration of Smethwick Council House.

New chapter for Victorian Society as director announces his departure

The Director of the Victorian Society, Christopher Costelloe, has announced that he will be stepping down after 7 years in the role, to move on to new challenges.

Historic Exeter deserves better

06/02/2020

An incongruously large development planned for Exeter would greatly overshadow the surrounding low-rise historic townscape

Victorian Society winter lecture series

10/01/2020

The Victorian Society launch a series of lectures exploring the imaginative conservation and reuse of historic buildings.

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2018 AGM Weekend in Nottingham

24/07/2020 00:00 - 26/07/2020 00:00.

Our AGM weekend will be celebrating the Victorian and Edwardian architecture of Nottinghamshire.

The annual general meeting beginning at 4pm on Friday afternoon will be held in the Civil Court Room, National Justice Museum (formerly Shire Hall with additons and alterations by TC Hine, 1876-9), High Pavement, Nottingham NG1 1HN. Tea and coffee will be served halfway through. Our evening will be spent at the Great Hall, Albert Hall (AE Lambert, 1907-9), North Circus Street, Nottingham NG1 5AA where we shall have a drinks reception followed by a lecture and a three-course dinner. Accommodation will be at Jury’s Inn, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3BJ. Check-in is from 2pm.

Saturday will be dedicated to exploring Nottingham on foot.

In the morning we shall walk around the city centre, the heart of the walk being the church of St Mary, High Pavement. The west front was rebuilt by WB Moffatt, 1845-53, the south chancel chapel was added by Temple Moore, 1912-15 and the chapter house by Bodley & Garner, 1887-8. We shall also visit the warehouse district and the exterior of several buildings by Watson Fothergill/Fothergill Watson.

In the afternoon we shall walk around the Park Estate, the core of which was developed from the 1850s. To get to the Estate we go through a fascinating Victorian pedestrian tunnel which was cut straight through the rock from 1844 to 1855. In the Estate itself North Road and Western Terrace were laid out by Peter Frederick Robinson, and TC Hine designed houses from 1844. There are also houses by AN Bromley and Fothergill Watson.

On Sunday we will leave Nottingham by coach to visit Papplewick Pumping Station (built by Ogle Tarbotton, the corporation engineer, in 1881-5); and Hucknall Church with its 20 windows by Kempe. We have lunch at Bestwood Lodge, a magnificent house built for the 10th Duke of St Albans by SS Teulon (1862-5). Above the porch are carvings depicting the heads of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men by Thomas Earp. The great hall has a wonderful stepped fireplace. The gardens were landscaped by Teulon and Thomas Church. After lunch we visit St Paul’s Church, Daybrook (Pearson with its Truro Cathedral-style single spire, a monument by Sir Thomas Brock and Clayton and Bell glass); hopefully the Church (or Rock) cemetery which has interesting catacombs; and possibly St Stephen’s, Sneinton with its tower by Rickman of 1839 and the rest by Bodley and Cecil Hare of c.1908, arriving back at Nottingham station in time for trains after 5pm.

COST £210 per person non-residential; £325 per person double/twin; £420 single. All coach trips, visits, admissions, gratuities, dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday and Sunday are included. The residential rate also includes bed and breakfast accommodation at Jury’s Inn, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3BJ.

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