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- Concerns over misleading tactics and validity of the consultation in Liverpool Street Station scheme
- Planning chaos at Liverpool Street Station!
- How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
- Fine Edwardian girls’ school joins the list at Grade II* following application by Victorian Society
- Griff Rhys Jones reveals the Victorian Society’s list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
- The show will go on as the DCMS lists The Futurist Cinema in Birmingham
- The Victorian Society welcomes its new Membership Manager
- The Victorian Society welcomes its new Fundraising Manager
- The Victorian Society welcomes two new Conservation Advisers
- First major study of the Victorian polymath Matthew Digby Wyatt
- The Victorian Society objects to needlessly damaging proposals for major Isle of Wight church
- Update on the demolition threat to part of the Stephenson’s Works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Part of railway pioneers the Stephenson’s works in Newcastle face demolition as celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway begins
- A letter from the Victorian Society’s Director to the Church of England’s Head of Mission for Pastoral and Church Property
- Joint Statement on Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations
- West Midlands Conservation Award goes to Sandwell Council for their project at West Bromwich Town Hall and Library
- Call for immediate action to preserve Scarborough’s rare Victorian tennis pavilion
- Largest brick-built heritage structure in UK threatened by encroaching new development
- Rare marine villa in Lyme Regis has listing upgraded to Grade II*
- Our Liverpool Regional Group marks its 60th anniversary
- Sheffield City Council have chosen to delay making the Castlegate area of the City a Conservation Area
- Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture
- LISSCA says “Do not pass go, do not collect £1.5 Billion: Don’t let Network Rail and the City play Monopoly with Liverpool Street Station”
- The Victorian Society celebrates the listing of the Market Hotel on Station Street Birmingham
- First major book on the ‘rogue’ architects of Victorian England
- The Victorian Society secures listing for Church of All Saints, Chigwell Row, Essex
- The Victorian Society secures listing for Church of St Mary in Crossway Green
- The Victorian Society secures listing for church in Beck Row in Suffolk
- Birmingham Council’s lack of enforcement action threatens heritage in the city
- Nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2025 are now open!
- James Grierson appointed Chair of the Victorian Society
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports a sustainable future for the Society
- Lord Mayor of Bradford to welcome Victorian Society to the city for its AGM and weekend of architectural exploration
- The Victorian Society opposes the needless demolition of Aire Place Mills as permitted development rights continue
- Come and visit our listed HQ as part of Open House Festival 2024
- Restoration of Vicars’ Close needs to retain the contributions of major Gothic Revival architects
- Society succeeds in upgrading listing for Deptford Town Hall to Grade II*
- Kate Martyn becomes Manchester Regional Group Chair
- Rowena Beighton-Dykes becomes Liverpool Group Chair
- The Victorian Society call on Birmingham City Council to immediately intervene to protect fine Victorian conservatory
- The Victorian Society and Toast Design complete a brand refresh and create a new website for the charity
- Griff Rhys Jones Launches 2024 Top Ten Endangered Buildings List
- Thousands of objections lead to Sellar making changes to their plans for Liverpool Street Station
- James Hughes appointed new Director of the Victorian Society
- Our West Yorkshire Group celebrates it 50th anniversary
- Trelaske Lodge Lewannick in Cornwall now listed
- The Victorian Society secures a notably rare success at consistory court
- Happy Birthday, George Edmund Street! The Victorian Society celebrates the bicentenary year of architect G.E. Street
- The Victorian Society urges Preston Council not to let flats plan for former Park Hotel extension ruin historic views
- The Victorian Society encourages people to object to plan to demolish agricultural outbuildings at George Eliot’s childhood farm home
- The Victorian Society needs a new director
- The Victorian Society secures listing for church in Ruswarp North Yorkshire
- Government launches consultation to stop the demolition of unlisted historic buildings under permitted development rights
- The Victorian Society and the London Gasketeers welcome break through in extending protection for Westminster gas lights
- The Victorian Society Director Joe O’Donnell
- The Victorian Society encourages people to have their say about plans to develop Worcester’s Shrub Hill Quarter
- Chichester District Council approves destruction of building by leading gothic revival architect to improve conservation area
- Sir David Cannadine presents 2020 Conservation Award plaque to Wedge Group Galvanizing Ltd
- Online talk series explores the British Empire’s architectural legacy from Glasgow to Australia (24 January – 13 March 2024)
- First major book on flamboyant Edwardian architect Edwin Rickards published
- Watch the Public Meeting with Griff Rhys Jones to Save Liverpool Street Station
- Decision on Bishopsgate Bathhouse proves City of London needs to step up its heritage protection
- Griff Rhys Jones to host Save Liverpool Street Station Public Meeting 21 November 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’
- How do I object to the plans to partially demolish Liverpool Street Station?
- The Victorian Society’s online talk series explores what can be learnt from 19th Century railways and their legacy today
- The Society successfully lists elements of Worcester’s railway boom
- The Victorian Society votes to promote sustainable repair and reuse of historic buildings
- The Victorian Society identify Norfolk lodge by architect Anthony Salvin and secure its listing
- Nominations for The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2024 are now open!
- The Victorian Society urges Government to ensure Reading Gaol’s sale allows public access to important part of the UK’s queer history
- Government commits to consult on making it harder to demolish locally important buildings after the loss of ‘Crooked House’
- Hornblotton House in Somerset is successfully listed
- Sir John Betjeman’s birthday sees launch of major fundraising appeal to Save Liverpool Street Station
- Would you like to organise events for the The Victorian Society?
- Network Rail urged not to demolish rare surviving Victorian ticket office in Northumberland
- The Victorian Society secures listing for Norman Evill house in Stanwix Carlisle
- The Victorian Society secures listing for the oldest surviving cricket pavilion in the country located at a first-class cricket ground
- City of London must refuse permission for tower over the top of listed Victorian Turkish Baths to avoid being branded failing on heritage protection
- Latest edition of The Victorian is out now – July 2023
- Fire at Ushaw involving Grade II* St Aloysius Chapel and the Ushaw Junior House
- The Victorian Society secures listing for eye-catching former bank in Gateshead
- Griff Rhys Jones launches 2023 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Revealed: nation’s Top Ten most endangered buildings 2012
- Liverpool Street Station listing revisions should spell end for demolition plans
- Defeat for Bath’s heritage as Abbey pew removal is permitted
- The Victorian Society’s 2019 Top 10 Endangered Buildings
- News
- Griff Rhys Jones and heritage campaigners to ask Michael Gove to decide Liverpool Street Station’s future
- LISSCA sends letter to the Editor of The Times
- Could you be our next Chair of the Board of Trustees?
- The Victorian Society’s amendments removing permitted development rights for demolition debated in the House of Lords
- Book tickets for our AGM weekend and discover Bath’s Victorian heritage this October
- The Victorian Society encourages people to object to insensitive 10 storey tower at Gloucester’s historic docks
- The Victorian Society encourages people to object to insensitive 10 storey tower at Gloucester’s historic docks
- City of London’s protection of heritage and the environment questioned as tower overshadowing Leadenhall Market approved
- Rent office space at our Grade II listed headquarters in Chiswick, London
- The Victorian Society objects to insensitive redevelopment of historic brewery maltings in Dorchester
- The Victorian Society’s climate emergency push to require planning permission for demolition
- The latest Victorian magazine is now available to our members
- The Victorian Society’s climate emergency push to require planning permission for demolition
- Annual Appeal 2023: Save Liverpool Street Station!
- The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic Somerset rectory designed by famous architects to prevent its demolition
- The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic Somerset rectory designed by famous architects to prevent its demolition
- The Victorian Society seeks listing for historic West Sussex rectory designed by a famous architect to prevent demolition
- Little Barford Manor House in Bedfordshire successfully listed
- Tettenhall Court one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in Wolverhampton successfully listed
- Birmingham City University Wins 2022 West Midlands Conservation Award
- The Victorian Society objects to plans to demolish historic carriage showrooms in Manchester
- Relaunched Liverpool Street Station Campaign names Griff Rhys Jones as President and asks public to sign petition
- The Pevsner Architectural Guides in the 21st Century
- The Pevsner Architectural Guides in the 21st Century
- Liverpool Street Station Development Consultation Begins in London
- The Victorian Society welcomes the charity’s new Media and Communications Manager
- Don’t miss your chance to object to demolition plans at Liverpool Street Station!
- The Victorian Society urges Westminster Council not to remove historic gaslights
- The Victorian Society AGM in Nottingham
- Political chaos must not delay plans to restore the Palace of Westminster
- Ipswich Museum under threat from historically insensitive redevelopment
- Nominations open for the 2022 Top Ten Endangered Buildings List
- Listing Success in Manchester
- Young Victorian Committee Elected
- Sandwell Council Presented The Victorian Society’s West Midlands Group’s Conservation Award
- The Victorian Society objects to ‘badly thought-through’ demolition of Victorian Villa in conservation area
- Darlaston Police Station (1899-1902, Charles William Davies Joynson) successfully listed
- Successful listing in Birmingham, the Samuel Heath and Sons Head Offices (1888, David Henry Ward)
- Our new Events Coordinator
- Listing success for Norfolk Convent
- The Threat to Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage: An Open Letter To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Olga Borisovna Lyubimova
- Theatres in the Spotlight – Spring 2022 Edition of the Victorian Magazine Out Now
- Midlands Industrial Association Limited wins The Victorian Society Birmingham and West Midlands 2021 Conservation Award
- Surprise ruling in case of G. E. Street’s St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley, Oxfordshire
- Worcester’s Vesta Tilley House shouldn’t face the wrecking ball due to non-listing
- We are hiring: The Victorian Society is looking for an Events Co-ordinator
- The Victorian Society’s 2021 Top 10 Endangered Buildings
- Remembering Geoff Brandwood
- The Victorian Society is Updating – Joining the fight to save Victorian and Edwardian Heritage is even easier
- Book your place now for our online talk series: Building the Victorian and Edwardian terraced house
- Andrew Saint: London 1870-1914: a City at its Zenith – Book sale now on
- The Victorian Society and Georgian Group unite to oppose demolition of listed buildings which tell the story of Manchester’s past
- The Victorian Society saddened by the loss of Liverpool’s World Heritage status
- The Victorian Society calls for better protection of UK’s World Heritage sites
- The Victorian Society listing success for lodge and gateway in park associated with David Bowie
- Want to save a threatened historic building? Nominate it for our Top Ten Endangered list 2021
- Council urged not to destroy last pub on historic ‘golden mile’
- The Victorian Society urges Kinmel Hall’s new buyer to carry out critical repairs
- South Cambridgeshire District Council urged to stop Hotel Felix demolition
- The Victorian Society saves country house delisted by accident from demolition
- Towering office block would be a shattering blow to Southwark’s industrial heritage
- Crunch time for rotting ‘Versailles of Wales’ as The Victorian Society urges suitable buyers to come forward
- Fight to save building designed by Sherlock Holmes author reflecting his spiritualist beliefs
- The Victorian Society urges Secretary of State to prevent harm to some of London’s most important Victorian buildings
- The Victorian Society urges Mayor to reject Brixton’s Hondo Tower on environmental grounds
- Virtual book launch: AWN Pugin by David Frazer Lewis
- Protect London’s historic heart from skyscrapers’ uncontrolled spread
- The Victorian Society succeeds in having historic bank Grade II-listed
- The Victorian Society slams damaging changes to Preston’s landmark Grade I-listed Harris Museum
- The Victorian Society back local campaign to stop towering 20-storey development in Brixton
- High Court quashes planning permission for skyscraper after The Victorian Society advice ignored
- The Victorian Society asks Secretary of State to call in Exeter’s Harlequins development
- Listing success for The Victorian Society’s Birmingham Group
- The Victorian Society applies for listings to protect Worcester’s historic cityscape
- Herefordshire Council must reject demolition of historic rectory to reach 2030 environmental targets
- The Victorian Society comments ‘should not be brushed aside’ says judge in Birmingham skyscraper challenge
- Victorian society expresses concerns over proposed planning changes
- Listing success for The Victorian Society’s Leicester Group
- Listing success for The Victorian Society’s Leicester Group
- The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list 2020
- Win for the The Victorian Society as Liverpool zip wire blocked after our legal challenge
- Joe O’Donnell appointed new Director of the The Victorian Society
- The Victorian Society legal challenge to Liverpool Council’s zip wire decision
- The Victorian Society slams Liverpool Council’s approval of zip wire
- VicSoc Welsh Heritage Day in Cardiff Saturday 3 September
- The Victorian Society celebrates as plans are approved to finally restore Smithfield Market
- The Victorian Society urges councils and owners to protect historic buildings from arson
- The Victorian Society condemns Birmingham police station’s needless destruction
- Partial demolition plans for St Joseph’s in Preston recommended for approval
- The Victorian Society calls for public inquiry into losing a key part of Bristol’s waterside heritage
- The Victorian Society calls for reuse of Bradford’s historic Fountain Hall
- The Victorian Society’s Birmingham & West Midlands Group commend restoration of Victorian school saved from demolition
- Birmingham & West Midlands group’s 2019 Conservation Award winner announced
- Historic Exeter deserves better
- The Victorian Society winter lecture series
- The Victorian Society oppose unnecessary loss of Preston’s gothic Victorian orphanage
- Who will protect Sheffield’s historic buildings from circling developers? The Victorian Society slams reports of proposal to slash planning department
- Fisons Factory fire
- The Victorian Society announce Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings 2019
- Save the historic Watson’s Hotel Building
- The Birmingham & West Midlands group of the The Victorian Society donates £2000 to Birmingham Cathedral restoration project
- Save the Still and Star!
- Save the Still and Star!
- Presentation to winner of 2017 Conservation Award
- The Victorian Society 2018 Top 10
- Not over yet: The Victorian Society appeals against Bath Abbey judgement
- Grade I St Botolph’s to keep chancel fixtures following heritage battle
- Save our gasholders! Iconic skyline at The Oval at risk of being lost
- West Midlands Group 2017 Conservation Award winner announced
- Griff Rhys Jones appointed President of the The Victorian Society
- Fight for Bath Abbey pews culminates in Consistory Court hearing
- Save Conan Doyle’s last building from demolition
- Irresponsible development razes Tudno Castle Hotel
- Top Ten endangered buildings list highlights neglect outside South East
- Griff Rhys Jones launches 2015 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings 2014 revealed
- Revealed: Top Ten endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings 2013
- The cemetery chapels survey
- Former South Eastern Railway offices, London
- The Victorian Society declares Manningham Pool a heritage crime scene
- Give Manningham Pool one last chance!
- Saturday free for all at threatened Bradford pool
- Historic London pool restored
- Council urged not to close historic Staffordshire pool
- Campaigners fight on for London’s longest-serving pool
- Grand finale of 1000 Year Swim
- What people have been saying about the 1000 year swim challenge
- Why the 1000 year swim?
- When? It’s all over!
- St Luke’s pool, Brighton
- Queensbury pool, Bradford
- Manningham baths, Bradford
- Health Hydro, Swindon
- Batley baths
- Bramley baths, Leeds
- Camberwell baths
- Beverley Road baths, Hull
- Camberwell baths
- Council urged not to close historic Bradford pool
- Tell Bradford Council why the pool must stay open!
Endangered Buildings
- Landmark Liverpool house Gwalia on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025
- Ground-breaking Norfolk early concrete building placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Huddersfield cemetery chapel on Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Gibson Street Baths placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Birmingham’s Methodist Central Hall towering symbol of West Midland city’s civic and cultural history placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Aldermaston Court witness to the earliest days of the atomic age placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Torquay Pavilion, jewel-box like seaside venue, placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Former dockside hotel in Penarth features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Birley Spa the last remaining Victorian bath house in South Yorkshire on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list
- Bosworth Park Water Tower features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025
- Arts and Crafts Nottingham Hospital Chapel features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
- Landmark Essex seaside building the Kursaal on 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
- Former London school where author Vera Brittain nursed during WWI is on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
- People’s banqueting hall in Jesmond Dene on Victorian Society’s Endangered Buildings list 2024
- Liverpool vicarage and hall on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
- Devon coastal gothic house on national Endangered Buildings list 2024
- Cardiff Coal Exchange on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for the second time
- 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
- Rare Victorian tennis pavilion in Scarborough is on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024
- Two Norwich engineering marvels that saved lives feature on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- The Constitutional Club one of Lincoln’s finest Victorian buildings features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- The Coach and Horses historic hotel in Wallsend, Sting’s home town, features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2023
- St Andrew’s Church in Temple Grafton trying to raise £250,000 features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- Soldier’s Point in Anglesey features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- North West’s only historic Turkish baths features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- Liverpool Street Station on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 | The Victorian Society
- Life-saving landmark Somerset tower in Rockwell Green features on The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023 | The Victorian Society
- Waterloo Hotel and Grill, Smethwick, West Midlands
- Wingfield Station, Derbyshire
- Corn Exchange/Former Town Hall, Swindon
- Icknield Street School, Birmingham, Grade II* Listed, by J.H. Chamberlain of Martin and Chamberlain, 1883
- Indoor Market, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, Unlisted, Architect Unknown, (1897)
- Jones & Higgins Department Store, London, Unlisted, Henry Jarvis & Sons, 1894
- Minley Home Farm, Hampshire, Unlisted, Arthur Castings, 1896
- Oldham Equitable Cooperative Society (Hill Stores), Oldham, Grade 2 listed, Thomas Taylor, 1900
- Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, Grade 2 Listed, Oatley and Skinner, 1902-1908
- The Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth
- Church of St Helen, Biscathorpe, Lincolnshire, Grade II* Listed, W. A. Nicholson, 1847
- Coal Drops, Halifax, Grade II, Architect unknown, 1874
- Healings Flour Mill and Warehouses, Tewkesbury, Grade II, by W H James of Tewkesbury for Samuel Healing and Son, 1865-6
- Horncliffe House, Lancashire, Grade-II listed, Architect Unknown, 1869
- St Mary’s Convent Church, Leeds
- St Peter and St Paul, Birch, Essex
- Samaritan Hospital for Women in London
- Shadwell Court, Norfolk
- Pelican Works, Birmingham
- Plas Alltran in Holyhead, Wales
- Queensbury Tunnel, Yorkshire
- Merseyside Centre for the Deaf, Liverpool
- Northgate Malt House Building in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
- Oldway Mansion, Devon
- Mechanics Institute, Swindon
- Ipswich’s former County Hall
- John Summers Steelworks, Shotton, Wales
- Langley Maltings, West Midlands
- Langton Dock Pumphouse, Bootle, Merseyside
- Hartley’s Village, Aintree, Liverpool
- Hendrefoilan House, Sketty, Swansea
- Holborn Circus, London
- Hulme Hippodrome, Manchester
- Fison’s Fertiliser Factory in Bramford, Suffolk on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Former Anglo-Bavarian Brewery in Shepton Mallet, Somerset
- Former Bavaria Place Police Station in Bradford
- Former Captain Cook Pub in Teesside, Middlesbrough
- Former Church of St Luke, Cheshire
- Former Legat’s School of Ballet, East Sussex
- Former Leslie Arms Public House, London
- Darlington Street Methodist Church in Wolverhampton
- Everton Library, Liverpool
- Ex-Prudential Assurance Company Offices in Oldham, Greater Manchester
- Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Staffordshire
- Cowbridge School, Wales
- Brandwood End Cemetery Chapels, Birmingham
- Brighton Hippodrome in Brighton
- Bromley-by-Bow gasholders, London
- Butterley Spillway, Marsden, West Yorkshire
- Bracebridge Pumping Station in Worksop, Nottinghamshire
- Agecroft Chapel, Salford
- Former Office for the Board of Guardians of Walsall Poor Law Union features in The Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- Blackborough House mansion that became a hostel for the homeless on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2023
- The Victorian Society marks 10 years of endangered buildings campaign with new top 10 list
- New Tiger’s Head pub in South East London on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- St Andrew’s Church in Huddersfield on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- St Helen’s Cannington bottle shop on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Llanelli’s Buckley’s Brewery Maltings on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Ince-in-Makerfield cemetery chapels near Wigan on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Folkestone’s Leas Pavilion on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Derby’s Great Northern Railway Warehouse Derby on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Feversham Street First School on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Chance’s Glassworks in Smethwick on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list
- Wigan cotton mill on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Wakefield’s Clayton Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- St Joseph’s Seminary near Wigan on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- St Paul’s Church, Chester on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Stafford’s Old Library on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Philip Webb’s Red Barns in Redcar on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Preston’s Mount Street Hospital on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Grimsby mill tower on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Cardiff’s old Bute Road Station on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Barnstaple’s Oliver Buildings on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Wolverhampton’s St Luke’s Church on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Sheerness Boat Store, Kent, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Overstone Hall, Northampton, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- London’s Ladywell Baths on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list
- Hunslet Mill and Victoria Works in Leeds on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Ipswich’s Tolly Cobbold brewery on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Kinmel Hall in Conwy on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Carlisle hotel on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list
- Brighton’s Madeira Terrace on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings
- Trentham Hall, Staffordshire
- Tonedale Mill, Somerset
- Sheffield’s missing Crimean War Monument
- Hartlepool’s former Wesley Chapel
- Greengate Public Baths, Salford
- Hammerhead crane, Isle of Wight
- Crumlin Navigation Colliery
- Cardiff Coal Exchange
- Abney Park Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Newington
- All Souls Church, Hastings, East Sussex
- St John’s Church, Crawshawbooth, Lancashire
- Royal Victorian Pavilion in Ramsgate
- Palace Theatre, Plymouth
- Palace Theatre, Swansea
- Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester
- Heeley Bank School, Sheffield
- Haggerston Baths, Hackney, London
- Fenton Town Hall, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent
- Accrington Conservative Club, Lancashire
- Winteringham School and School Board Offices, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
- Wansford Station, Peterborough
- Temple Mill, Leeds
- The Old Rectory, Columb Major
- Manningham Baths
- Former YMCA building, Merthyr Tydfil
- Hammerton School, Ouseburn Road, Darnall, Sheffield
- Crumpsall and Cheetham District Library
- Cricket Pavilion, Bletchley
- Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire
- Ancoats Dispensary
- The Grimsby Ice Factory, Gorton Street, The Docks, Grimsby
- The Unitarian Chapel, Upper Brook Street, Manchester
- Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park, Tuebrook, Liverpool
- Normansfield Hospital, Kingston Road, Teddington, Middlesex
- Old Fire Station, Court Road, Barry, South Wales
- Former Wedgwood Institute, Queen Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
- Former Moseley School of Art, Moseley Road, Birmingham
- Bradgate House Stables, Bradgate Hill, Groby, Leicestershire
- 30 Euston Square, London
Events
- Online Lecture: Benjamin Ferrey and the Romanesque Revival: ‘a lamentable accident’? by Harry Spain
- Online Lecture: E.W. Godwin by Aileen Reid
- Online Lecture: Toronto Edwardian: Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age by David Winterton
- Online Lecture: The Aesthetic Movement in Five English Interiors by Steven Brindle
- Online Lecture: Matthew Digby Wyatt by Robert Thorne
- Online Lecture: Clumber Park: A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall
- Online Lecture: Halsey Ricardo: A Life in Arts and Crafts by Mark Bertram
- Online Lecture: Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Extraordinary Art Collector by Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
- Autumn Online Lecture Series 2025: Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops – 7 talks for 6
- Visit: St Andrew, Kingsbury, London With introductory talk by Kit Wedd
- Talk: Late Victorian and Edwardian Furnishings in Kensington & Chelsea Churches by Fr Evan McWilliams
- Online Lecture: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Smithfield, by Tom Butler
- Visit: Skinners’ Hall
- Walk: The AMAZING architecture of Tooley Street! Led by Benedict O’Looney
- Visit: St Saviour, Aberdeen Park, London
- Walk: London’s Bridges: From Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge, Led by Steven Brindle
- AGM Weekend: Oxford 5-7 September 2025
- Visit: Lutyens, Flockhart, Waterhouse and Voysey Day – Visit to Goddards
- Walk: The Thames Path, from Tower Hill to Canary Wharf, Led by Steven Brindle
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘Billy Skywonkie’ by Barbara Baynton
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Golden Shanty by Edward Dyson
- Visit: Tour of Stanley Arts in South Norwood
- Online Lecture and in person: The Magnetic Margot Gayle , by Joshua Mardell
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘Promotion’ by Guy Boothby
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: The Cast-iron Canvasser’ by Banjo Paterson
- Visit: ‘The Cathedral of Sewage’ – Crossness Pumping Station
- Visit: Woking, England’s First Crematorium: A Visit led by Prof Hilary J Grainger
- Visit: Makers of Modern Gothic: A.W.N Pugin and John Hardman Jr: Curators’ Tour
- Visit: A Guided Tour of Two Temple Place, London
- Visit: Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington including a Visit to the Restored Chapel
- Visit: A Guided Tour of Guildhall Art Gallery, London – Morning
- Visit: A Guided Tour of Guildhall Art Gallery, London – Afternoon
- Visit: Victorian Sudbury, Suffolk including a visit to a Functioning Brickyard
- Walk: A Lutyens walk in Mayfair, led by Paul Waite of the Lutyens Trust
- Walk: Angel Islington to Smithfield Walk, Led by Alec Forshaw
- Online Lecture: The Victorian Society Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
- Online Lecture: Restoring the Doulton’s Carrara Ware Façade at Findlater’s Corner
- Online Lecture: The London Dustheap – Sifting through the Victorian Imagination
- Walk: Westminster by Gaslight Walk, led by Elan Walks
- Artistic Houses: London’s Pre-Raphaelite Interiors by Jo Banham
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Drover’s Wife’ by Henry Lawson
- Visit: Royal Albert Hall
- Visit: Palace of Westminster
- Online Lecture: Street Closure: A Discussion about Recent Visits to Buildings by G E Street
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Dead Witness’ or ‘The Bush Waterhole’ by Mary Fortune
- Online Lecture: Clotilde Brewster: A Life in Perspective: the Journey of the First Female international Architect
- Visit: Old Bailey
- Online Lecture: Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, ‘House Decorators’: the History of a Business, 1874–1905 by Elizabeth Crawford
- Online Lecture: A W N Pugin and Women by Rosemary Hill
- Online Lecture: Victorian Chatelaine: Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam, by James Lomax
- Online Lecture: Marion Mahony Griffin: ‘Stage 1’ of a remarkable career’, by Anna Rubbo
- Online Lecture: Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, and Victorian Society, by William Whyte
- Winter Online Lecture Series 2025: Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture – 7 talks for 6
- Online Lecture: Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture, by Lynne Walker
- Visit: An 1890s House in Clapham
- Online Lecture: London’s Lost Victorian Interiors, by Steven Brindle
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Ghost upon the Rail’ by John Lang
- Online Lecture: Victorian Colonial Short Stories 2: Dominions, Colonies & Protectorates
- Walk: Westminster by Gaslight Walk, led by Elan Walks
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor’ by B. M. Croker
- Visit: St Mary’s at West Tofts
- Online Lecture: The London Gasketeers: The Fight to Save Westminster’s Historic Gas Lamps, by Luke Honey
- Talk: Lost Gardens of London, by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
- AGM Weekend in Bradford
- Walk: Exploring Brixton’s Victorian History
- Online Talk: The Monk Sisters at St James the Less: Women and Architectural Patronage in Victorian Britain, by Alex Bremner
- Walk: Merton Park, “The Original and Most Unique Garden Suburb”, led by Tony Woolfenden
- Walk: Exploring Victorian Clapham, led by Christopher Claxton Stevens
- Visit: Street’s Church, Holmbury St Mary – G E Street Bicentenary
- Visit: All Saints’ church, Putney Common – G E Street Bicentenary
- Visit: RIBA Drawings Collection at the V&A
- Walk: Liverpool Street Station and its Environs, led by Steven Brindle
- Online Lecture: Alfred Stevens: Master of Design, 1817-1875, by Teresa Sladen
- Online Lecture: Innovations in the Art and Craft of Stained Glass in the 19th Century
- Online Lecture: The Mosaics of Westminster Cathedral, by Peter Howell
- Online Lecture: Owen Jones and the V&A, by Olivia Horsfall Turner
- Online Lecture: ‘Fair and Beautiful to Behold’ – Ecclesiastical Embroideries, by Mary Schoeser
- Online Lecture: Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, by Matthew Winterbottom
- Online Lecture: A W N Pugin – Victorian Tile Designer Par Excellence, by Hans van Lemmen
- Autumn Online Lecture Series 2024: Crossing Boundaries-Victorian Art, Design and Architecture-7 talks for 6
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Salt Inspector’ (Namak ka Daroga) by Munshi Premchand
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Postmaster’ by Rabindranath Tagore
- Online Talk: Death and the Victorians – A Dark Fascination
- Online Talk: The Work of Horace Jones, the Architect who Designed Tower Bridge
- Visit: ‘The Cathedral of Sewage’ – Crossness Pumping Station
- George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium – Day 2
- George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium – Day 1
- Weekend Visit to G E Street’s Churches in East Yorkshire
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Pestilence at Noonday’ by Cornelia Sorabji
- Visit: Hampton Court in the 19th Century
- Visit: Golders Green Crematorium, led by Hilary Grainger
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The White Tiger’ and ‘Caulfield’s Crime’ by Alice Perrin
- An Exploration of Surrey led by Charles O’Brien
- West Norwood Cemetery
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Pipe of Mystery’ by G.A. Henty
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Rise of Ram Din’ by Alice Perrin.
- From Palaces of Art to the Studios of Bohemia: Artists’ Houses in Victorian Kensington and Chelsea, by Jo Banham
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Thrown Away’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Victorian Short Story Reading Group: ‘The Body Snatcher’, by Robert Louis Stevenson with June Lawrence
- The Architecture of ‘Greater Britain’: Style and Empire, c.1885-1915
- Building Better Britain: Victorian Architecture in New Zealand, 1840 – 1901
- Eclecticism and Ornament in Malaya’s Vernacular Classicism
- Life on the Buffalo River – the Development of East London, South Africa
- Enviable Reputation: An Indian Engineer and the Construction of Victorian Bombay
- ‘In touch with our modern civilization’: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Centuries
- Colonial Aspiration and Nineteenth Century Public Building in Australia
Regional Events
- GF Bodley and St Augustine’s Pendlebury
- The Lunch Hour 5: City Planning System and regeneration
- The Politics of Wallpaper: two Cheshire country houses in the late Regency period
- The Lunch Hour 4: Castlefield: history and development
- Visit: A Coach Trip to Banbury
- A visit to the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield with Matt Wakefield.
- A tour of Endcliffe Hall, by our Chair, Nigel Slack.
- A guided tour of Loxley Cemetery by the Friends of Loxley Cemetery.
- Visit: Early Evening Walk in Birmingham City Centre
- The Lunch Hour event 2: tour of John Rylands Research Institute and Library
- Ancoats: canals, cotton mills and housing 2: repeat event
- Warehouses of Victorian Manchester
- The Northern Art Workers Guild 1896-1912
- GE Street, St Peter’s Swinton and the Heywood family
- A walking tour of Victorian and Edwardian Rotherham
- The Manchester Peace Trail
- Walk: Liverpool’s Waterfront, A Walking Tour with Peter de Figueiredo:
- Talk: The History of Port Sunlight with Gavin Hunter
- Members’ Afternoon
- Talk: The Manchester Art Workers’ Guild, by Barry Clark
- Guided Walk around Victorian Manningham, Bradford
- Victorian Scarborough: a Walk around the First Great Railway Resort
- Visit: Day Trip to Walsall
- Talk and Guided Walk: George Shaw in Uppermill
- Talk and Visit: Mills Transformed at Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley
- Talk: the Life and Times of William Edward Armitage Axon (1846-1913)
- Manchester Group AGM and Talk: The Saving of Stretford Town Hall
- 60th Anniversary AGM inc. Lecture ‘Liverpool Scottish’, by Joseph Sharples
- Regional AGM: The Annual General Meeting of the Birmingham & West Midlands region
- Lunch: New Year Lunch at Bistrot Pierre
- Visit: A Guided Visit around the Victorian Radicals Exhibition
- Talk: The Work of the Railway Heritage Trust
- Talk: More Wallpaper, Vicar? A Talk by Rowena Beighton-Dykes
- Walk: Peter de Figueiredo: A walking tour of Liverpool’s Mercantile Architecture
- Talk: Day School on Gas, Water and Sewage
- Talk: The History of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, by Christina Clarke
- Christmas lunch, tour and talk at Werneth Grange, Oldham
- Talk: Art and Architecture of Sicily
- Talk: the Arts and Crafts Museum at the Manchester School of Art – a guided tour from 1903
- Visit to Rochdale Town Hall 28 September 2024- update 2
- Walk: A Day Visit to Three Stourbridge Churches – SOLD OUT
- Talk: Philosophical Foundations: Origins of Sheffield’s First Public Museum in Weston Park
- Talk: Sheffield in 1903 – A History Tour of Central Sheffield through 120 Old Photographs with Martin Naylor
- Talk: Scattered Homes by Sheffield Hospitals History Group
- Talk: Women’s Suffrage before the Suffragettes with Matthew Roberts & Denise Annett
- Talk: Victorian Cutlery from The Ken Hawley Collection
- Talk: Sheffield’s Crofts settlements with Christine Minter
- June event: A Walk round Bury
- Walk: Sheffield Networks of Activism – A free guided walk during Heritage Open Days
- Walk: Walkley with Walkley Historians – SOLD OUT
- Visit: Day Trip to Stourbridge
- A Walking Tour of City Road Cemetery, Sheffield with Graham Hague.
- Visit: St John’s Church, Ranmoor, led by Mary Grover
- Gwrych Castle visit
- Walk: James Pigott Pritchett (Snr). in York, Led by Dr Victoria Hopgood
- Redevelopment and restoration of Heap’s Rice Mill, Beckwith Street, Liverpool
- The Liverpool Regional Group relaunching on 20th March with a valedictory talk by Ken Moth
- Visit: Coach Trip to Shropshire
- Members’ Afternoon
- Visit: Great Malvern & Malvern College
- A guided tour of the graveyard of All Saints, Childwall, by Diana Goodier
- 50 Years of the Liverpool Group of the The Victorian Society
- 50 Years in Building Conservation, an illustrated talk by Ken Moth
- Ilkley, from village Spa to Victorian resort – a walk with Alex Cockshott
- Exploring Oldham’s heritage as the “cotton-spinning capital of the world.
- Ernest George and large country houses
- Tour of Sheffield Town Hall – Led by Cllr Janet Ridler SCC Heritage Champion.
- From Pauper Palace to Regional General Hospital – Mary Garside.
- Exploring Oldham’s heritage as the “cotton-spinning capital” of the world.
- Manchester’s theatre district – a walk with David Astbury
- Victoria Arches – An illustrated talk by Keith Warrender
- Symposium to celebrate the completion of Birmingham cathedral’s divine beauty project
