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St Paul’s Church, Chester on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list

Grade II* church on the banks of the Dee with stunning interior and stained glass in process of closing while slowly deteriorating

Barnstaple’s Oliver Buildings on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list

Former Arts & Crafts furniture factory's owner urged to act to avoid further decay after rejecting local building preservation trust offer

Brighton’s Madeira Terrace on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings

Brighton Council wants entire replacement of is said to be the world's longest cast iron structure. The Society urges the Council to retain as much of the original structure as possible.

Carlisle hotel on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

Investment is desperately needed to save this important city centre building currently languishing in the hands of the Queen’s Crown Estate Solicitors

Kinmel Hall in Conwy on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges Kinmel's British Virgin Islands registered owner Acer Properties, which has owned the building since 2011, to come forward with firm plans for Kinmel’s future

Ipswich’s Tolly Cobbold brewery on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the owners to come forward with a development scheme before this important building is lost

Hunslet Mill and Victoria Works in Leeds on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the owners, who have left the site unused for nearly twenty years, to propose a development scheme before it is too late.

London’s Ladywell Baths on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges Lewisham Council to redouble its efforts to find a developer able to bring the building back to life

Overstone Hall, Northampton, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the Hall’s owner to take action to ensure the building survives

Sheerness Boat Store, Kent, on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the owners of the Grade I-listed building seek inspiration from the way former naval buildings are re-used at Chatham Dockyard to find a future use the building

Wolverhampton’s St Luke’s Church on Top Ten Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the Church to redouble its efforts to find someone willing to take on the building rather than closing it and leaving it empty indefinitely

Weston-super-Mare’s Birnbeck Pier on Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings list

The Society urges the Council to work with the pier’s owner and the Birnbeck Regeneration Trust to quickly establish a planning brief for development before it is too late

Griff Rhys Jones launches 2015 Top Ten Endangered Buildings list

Top Ten Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings in England and Wales 2015 revealed

Sheffield’s missing Crimean War Monument

This tribute to Britain’s war dead has been broken up and placed in storage for over ten years, the column feared lost. We call on Sheffield Council to set out its plans for the monument in time for Remembrance Day.

Trentham Hall, Staffordshire

Once part of England’s grandest country houses, mostly demolished in 1912 due to pollution in the River Trent, the remains give an idea of the Hall’s former glory but are in a very poor state

Crumlin Navigation Colliery

A nationally important, nearly complete, complex of both Grade II* and II buildings. Plans for use as community hub at risk due to pollution

Abney Park Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Newington

The oldest surviving non-denominational chapel in Europe, and Hosking’s only surviving public building, is now a picturesque ruin on the brink of being lost without immediate action