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The Victorian Society welcomes its new Fundraising Manager

  The Victorian Society is delighted to welcome its new Fundraising Manager, Anna Tham. Anna will devise and implement the charity’s fundraising strategy. Anna’s work will include developing relationships with…

The Victorian Society welcomes two new Conservation Advisers

The Victorian Society is delighted this quarter to welcome both a new Northern Conservation Adviser, Tom Ollivier, and a new Southern Conservation Adviser, Morgan Ellis Leah. Tom Ollivier – Northern…

First major study of the Victorian polymath Matthew Digby Wyatt

Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-77) was a Victorian figure with wide-ranging accomplishments as an architect, administrator, designer, artist, writer and connoisseur. He was a member of the distinguished Wyatt family of…

The Victorian Society objects to needlessly damaging proposals for major Isle of Wight church

Plans for the important Grade II*-listed All Saints church in Ryde have led the Victorian Society to object in the Portsmouth Consistory Court. The Society advocates a more responsive and…

Update on the demolition threat to part of the Stephenson’s Works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Following recent dialogue with the developers, two of the national amenity societies are raising continued serious concerns over proposals to demolish part of the workshops of the pioneers of railways…

Part of railway pioneers the Stephenson’s works in Newcastle face demolition as celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway begins

  Three of the national amenity societies are objecting to proposals to demolish part of the workshops of the pioneers of railways and locomotives, George and Robert Stephenson. The amenity…

A letter from the Victorian Society’s Director to the Church of England’s Head of Mission for Pastoral and Church Property

RE: GS2934/2935 Mission and Pastoral Measure and Mission and Pastoral Regulations I write ahead of tomorrow’s discussion at General Synod on proposals to recast the legislative framework that governs pastoral…

Joint Statement on Mission and Pastoral Measure and Regulations

Discussion of the Makin Review and the sufficiency of the Church of England’s safeguarding procedures is quite rightly at the top of this week’s General Synod agenda. Few are aware,…

West Midlands Conservation Award goes to Sandwell Council for their project at West Bromwich Town Hall and Library

The Victorian Society’s Birmingham & West Midlands Group has announced its tenth annual Conservation Award made to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council for their project at West Bromwich Town Hall and…

Call for immediate action to preserve Scarborough’s rare Victorian tennis pavilion

Despite the Victorian Society having placed the former Bramcote Tennis Pavilion on the Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in May 2024 no action by its owners or the Council…

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