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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
Tonedale Mill, Somerset
Plans to redevelop the site fell through during the recession, but as the housing market recovers, is a sensitive housing scheme now viable?
Cardiff Coal Exchange
Declared unsafe and in imminent danger of collapse by Cardiff Council in 2013, a thorough heritage assessment is urgently needed
Hartlepool’s former Wesley Chapel
Prominent Grade II-listed landmark deteriorating while awaiting hotel conversion
Greengate Public Baths, Salford
Action needed to save this rare survival of a handsome early public baths designed by one of Manchester’s best 19th century architects
Hammerhead crane, Isle of Wight
Giant cantilever crane in Cowes used for the production of naval warships
Top Ten Most Endangered Buildings 2014 revealed
The Victorian Society annouces the Top Ten following a national appeal for nominations
Winteringham School and School Board Offices, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
16/10/2013
Charming former College of Art & Design and gabled offices in critical condition
