Victorian Society News Archive: 2017

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

Fine Crossland church forgotten & at risk of decay, vandals & nesting birds National architecture charity the The Victorian Society has included St Andrew’s Church in Huddersfield on its 2017...

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

Cannington Shaw no.7 Bottle Shop in St Helen’s is all that remains of the “largest bottle-making factory in the country” National architecture charity the The Victorian Society has included Cannington...

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

Grade II-listed, 1852-6, James Buckley Industrial activity at the Buckley’s Brewery site can be traced back to the early eighteenth century, and a brewery is known to have existed in...

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

Greater Manchester Gothic chapels designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the Natural History Museum, in very dire state Grade II-listed, 1855-57, Alfred Waterhouse When Ince Cemetery opened in 1855, presumably...

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

Former Edwardian tea rooms/theatre/snooker hall with Art Nouveau windows seeks long term future   National architecture charity the The Victorian Society has included Leas Pavilion in Folkestone on its 2017...

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

Derbyshire railway warehouse left derelict for an unbelievable 50 years and at tipping point Grade II-listed, 1877, Kirk and Randall This large railway warehouse bordering a roundabout on the outskirts...

Feversham Street First School on 2017 Top 10 Endangered Buildings list

Surely a new, permanent use for this fine Grade II* building could be found? Grade II*-listed, 1873, Lockwood and Mawson Feversham Street First School was commissioned by the Bradford School...

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

Skip hire firm uses nationally historic former glassworks site for processing rubbish   Grade II-listed, 1824, The Chance Brothers In the mid-nineteenth century, Chance’s Glassworks was one of the most...