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Visit the Victorian Society’s listed HQ as part of Open House Festival 2025
Saturday 13th September 2025 We are opening our listed offices as part of this year’s Open House Festival. The Victorian Society are based in Bedford Park in Chiswick. The building…
Action by the Victorian Society and local community brings about enforcement of repairs to rare Victorian Tennis pavilion in Scarborough
Following the Victorian Society’s call for action from North Yorkshire Council in February 2025 in relation to the Bramcote Tennis Pavilion, repairs are now taking place to this remarkable surviving…
It is with great sorrow that the Society shares the news of the death of Professor Andrew Saint
Andrew was one of the most distinguished architectural historians of his generation and a sparklingly brilliant writer. Andrew’s unfailing dedication to the work of the Society over many decades is…
The Victorian Society’s call for the listing of Cransford Hall receives a favourable hearing
The Society are grateful that the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Historic England, have kindly responded to our request to list this unspoilt Edwardian, Suffolk…
Concerns over misleading tactics and validity of the consultation in Liverpool Street Station scheme
President Griff Rhys Jones OBE and the Victorian Society’s Director James Hughes have expressed serious concerns about the validity of the public consultation process for the controversial redevelopment of Liverpool…
Planning chaos at Liverpool Street Station!
In a highly unusual situation, the public is faced with not one but two live and competing planning applications for the major redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station. The Liverpool Street…
How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
We have prepared this guide to help anyone who wishes to write an objection to the plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station How do I object…
Fine Edwardian girls’ school joins the list at Grade II* following application by Victorian Society
An application by the Society’s Birmingham and West Midlands Group has led to the listing of the King Edward VI Handsworth Girls’ School in Birmingham. The grammar school was designed by…
Griff Rhys Jones reveals the Victorian Society’s list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025
The Society’s President, Griff Rhys Jones OBE, has today launched the list of the Top Ten Endangered Buildings in England and Wales. The buildings in the Top Ten are nationally…
The show will go on as the DCMS lists The Futurist Cinema in Birmingham
The Victorian Society is delighted that the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Historic England, has accepted our Birmingham & West Midlands Conservation Adviser’s request to…
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