Victorian Society secures listed status for unspoilt Essex church
The Victorian Society is delighted to announce that it has successfully secured formal designation and statutory protection for the Church of St Barnabas, a remarkably intact small rural church in...
In Memoriam – Remembrance Sunday 2025 – Compton War Memorial
The carved inscription on the monument reads: ‘In honoured memory of the men of Compton who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. “Through the ages one clear flame...
Teulon’s Holy Trinity in Hastings to lose its choir stalls despite objections
The Society are deeply saddened that despite our objections and concerns from Historic Buildings &Places, the Church Buildings Council and the local Council, the Diocese of Chichester Consistory Court...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
The Victorian Society celebrates the listing of the Market Hotel on Station Street Birmingham
The Society is absolutely delighted that the Secretary of State and Historic England have agreed to back our Birmingham Conservation Adviser’s call for the listing of the former Market Hotel...
The Victorian Society secures listing for Church of All Saints, Chigwell Row, Essex
(Grade II, J. P. Seddon, 1867) All Saints is a bold and impressive church from the height of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Opened in 1867 on the edge of Hainault...
The Victorian Society secures listing for Church of St Mary in Crossway Green
(Grade II, Thomas Vale, 1882) The Mission Church of St. Mary, Crossway Green, was presented to the parish by Henry Philpott, the Bishop of Worcester, who opened it in 1882....