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1 Priory Gardens
LONDON W4 1TT
T 020 8994 1019
E Email
Charity No. 1081435
Company No. 3940996
Registered in England. Office as above.
News
Eminent historian marks fifty fighting years
Lord Briggs, one of the most respected historians ever to have written on the Victorian era, will deliver a lecture next week to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, the national charity campaigning for the Victorian and Edwardian historic environment.
Local authority puts Cumbria's heritage first
News that the Lake District National Park Authority has refused plans to overhaul a Victorian Hotel in Grasmere's Town End Conservation Area has been welcomed by the Victorian Society, the national charity campaigning for the Victorian and Edwardian historic environment.
Hope for Hafodunos Hall rises from the ashes
Reports that one of North Wales's foremost country houses is up for sale have been welcomed by the Victorian Society, which hopes that the right owner will give Sir George Gilbert Scott's devastated masterpiece a new lease of life.
Anniversary exhibition to mark fifty fighting years
A photographic exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects will celebrate the work of the Victorian Society this spring, fifty years after the charity was founded to save the nation's best Victorian and Edwardian buildings from the wrecking ball.
Charity urges Nottingham residents to go for a swim
News that the closure of Nottingham's Victoria Baths has been postponed to allow for more public consultation on the future of the leisure centre has been welcomed by the Victorian Society, which hopes that Nottingham residents will turn out in force to show their support for the historic pool.Homeowner Advice
Fireplaces
Your questions answered on blocked fireplaces, reinstating fireplaces, original fireplace designs, permitted fuels, removing paint from cast iron, the best finishes; removing smoke stainsEvents
0825 Peter Clarke Memorial Walk: The city of Holmes and Soames revisited 44 years on
A walk around the City following the steps of Peter Clarke's original Victorian Society walk of 1964 seeing what has changed and what remains the same, using the original notes.
0810 Victorian North-West Essex
Organised by the Great Eastern Group. A day led by Michael Pearson visiting houses and churches in rural north-west Essex with James Bettley (author of the recent revision of Pevsner's Essex volume) including churches in the villages of Radwinter (WE Nesfield and Temple Moore), Farnham (J Clarke), Littlebury Green (tin tabernacle), Wicken Bonhunt (Rev JH Sperling), and Stansted Mountfitchet (WD Caröe), as well as (we hope) Richard Armstrong's Stansted Hall.0811 Three Jubilees: 50th anniversary lecture by Lord Briggs
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Victorian Society and to coincide with our 50th anniversary exhibition to be held at the RIBA in May we have arranged a special lecture to be given in the Jarvis Hall of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD.Publications
The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
This book is packed with information about Victorian architectural ideas, building methods and materials, as well as practical advice on maintenance and conservation. For any house-proud owner of a Victorian property, this book is a unique and invaluable resource.
The Victorian
The Victorian is published three times a year, and is sent to all members of the Society free of charge. As well as the feature articles listed below, the magazine contains book reviews, Society news and events, casework reports, and interviews.Saving a century...
This issue, as we celebrate 50 years since the first meeting of the Society on 25 February 1958 in the drawing room at Linley Sambourne House, we can be forgiven for being a little introspective.It's curious how opinions about Victorian architecture have changed. Now, cab drivers and corporate leaders alike will unhesitatingly tell you how beautiful they find St Pancras Station whereas even ten years ago admiration was accorded only grudgingly if at all.
Popular credit for saving St Pancras has gone to cuddly Sir John Betjeman. But, as Simon Jenkins wrote in the Guardian, 'the true saviour of St Pancras [was] the Victorian Society, which single-handedly fought ... ministers and railwaymen'
