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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
LISSCA says “Do not pass go, do not collect £1.5 Billion: Don’t let Network Rail and the City play Monopoly with Liverpool Street Station”
Time to pause – and question Network Rail’s plans. The Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA), headed by Griff Rhys Jones, has carefully considered the latest plans for Liverpool Street Station....
First major book on the ‘rogue’ architects of Victorian England
The Rogue Goths – R.L. Roumieu, Joseph Peacock and Bassett Keeling By Edmund Harris Publication date: 28th November 2024 Author Edmund Harris’s book is the latest in the Victorian Society’s...
Lord Mayor of Bradford to welcome Victorian Society to the city for its AGM and weekend of architectural exploration
Friday 4 October to Sunday 6 October 2024 AGM from 2.45pm at Midland Hotel, Bradford BD1 4HU The Victorian Society, the national charity that campaigns for Victorian and Edwardian buildings...