Saving buildings

Victorian and Edwardian buildings are irreplaceable, cherished, diverse, beautiful, familiar and part of our everyday life. The Victorian Society is the champion for these buildings. Read about what we do.

Buccleuch Hotel in Kettering threatened with demolition

Thursday 3 April: The Buccleuch Hotel in Kettering, a fine late Victorian building at risk of demolition

Saving a Century exhibition opens at Hughenden Manor

Sunday 30 March: Opens 1 April

Hartlepool’s Tunstall Court threatened with complete demolition

Tuesday 25 March: Years of neglect have allowed this handsome and important building to be vandalised

Cardiff Council threatens to demolish part of Coal Exchange

Thursday 27 February: Grade II* listed landmark a symbol of Wales’s 19th Century commercial heyday needs sympathetic repair, not demolition and redevelopment

Victorian Society applies for Smithfield General Market and Fish Market to be listed

Monday 10 February: New listing application submitted for these threatened buildings

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Churches 1870-1914

Edited by Teresa Sladen and Andrew Saint. In the third issue of 'Studies in Victorian architecture and design', our topic is the most important buildings the Victorians built: they were talked about more than any other building-type and they took up more space in the architectural press.

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Building a great Victorian city: Leeds architects and architecture 1790-1914

Edited by Christopher Webster and published by Northern Heritage Publications in association with The Victorian Society West Yorkshire Group.

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The marbles of Westminster Cathedral

Wednesday 23 April. 2pm to 3.15pm A walk around Westminster Cathedral led by Patrick Rogers, Cathedral Historian, looking at the variety and history of the marbles which decorate its walls.

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