Victorian Society News Archive: 2013
St John’s Church, Crawshawbooth, Lancashire
Catastrophic damage caused by lead theft Grade II*-listed, 1892, Paley, Austin & Paley St John’s, by the well-known Lancashire firm of Paley, Austin & Paley, is an important set-piece church,...
Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate
Seafront pavilion dilapidated and neglected Grade II-listed, 1903, Stanley Davenport Adshead The Royal Victoria Pavilion was originally intended as a theatre and entertainment complex, with a promenade, refreshment room, and...
Revealed: Top Ten endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings 2013
The Victorian Society highlights buildings at risk See full illustrated list of Top Ten endangered buildings. England and Wales’s top ten most threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings of 2013 have...
Palace Theatre, Plymouth
Flamboyant theatre, one of Plymouth’s finest buildings, continues to decay Grade II*-listed, 1898, John Thomas Wimperis and William Henry Arber The ‘New Palace Theatre of Varieties’, or the Palace Theatre...
Palace Theatre, Swansea
A victim of urban decay and the exuberant power of buddleia Grade II-listed, 1888, Alfred Bucknall and Edward William Jennings This Baroque Revival theatre, built by a tramway company and...
Jumbo Water Tower, Colchester
Colchester’s skyline at risk from insensitive redevelopment Grade II*-listed, 1882, Charles Clegg Standing 110-feet high, the Balkerne Water Tower – or Jumbo, as it is colloquially known – is the...
Heeley Bank School, Sheffield
Closure and vandalism hit fine Victorian school Grade II-listed, 1880, E.R. Robson The Sheffield School Board wanted to set a new standard for architecture in education and employed pioneering school...
Haggerston Baths, Hackney, London
Neglected public baths in search of new role Grade II-listed, 1904, A.W. Cross This magnificent former bathhouse, on Whiston Road in Hackney, has been closed and boarded up since 2000,...
Fenton Town Hall, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent
Public access to WWI memorial and fine vaulted chamber at risk Unlisted, 1888, Robert Scrivener Fenton Town Hall was commissioned by local industrialist, William Meath Baker, at his own expense,...