As part of the 1st London General Hospital during WWI, our Top Ten Endangered Building in Lambeth - the Victorian Cormont Road Board School - was the first posting of writer and campaigner Vera Brittain when she served as a VAD.

In Memoriam - Remembrance Sunday 2025 - Compton 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 of sacrifice has burned, and by its light men see god."'

Come and see the Society at stand E40 at the Historic Buildings Parks & Gardens Event on Tue 11th Nov 2025 from 0900 hrs. Entrance to the event is free for people in the heritage sector + owners of historic properties too. Register on the day QEII Centre, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE See you there!

📣 Object now to stop the demolition of Clive Lodge, one of the earliest homes in this leafy part of Ealing! 🧵 Object here to planning application Ref: 253085FUL bit.ly/3Lo8EZH

📣 There's a new petition to Stop the Closure of Walsall Leather Museum. The building is the last example there of an early Victorian leatherworks in situ. The leather-working process is showcased, it's a much-loved local attraction. The Council has announced it will close in 2026. c.org/PKm6B7svFN

We're in Country Life Magazine! Our President, Griff Rhys Jones’s, call for suggestions of buildings for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2026, is the lead news story in this week’s elegant edition. Here's how to nominate: bit.ly/4hybqrc #TopTen26 #endangeredbuildings #heritage #nominations

Historian Dr Aileen Reid will be giving an online lecture on E.W. Godwin. Although his fame today rests largely on his Aesthetic Movement furniture and friendships with Oscar Wilde and J.M. Whistler, throughout his life E.W. Godwin styled himself ‘architect.' 🧵 Buy your ticket here: bit.ly/4omZRWe

🎆Victory for St George’s Hall, Deal! 🎆 We’re delighted to share that St George’s Hall in Deal has been saved from demolition. Thanks to the tireless efforts of local residents, the Deal Society, Deal Town Council and the Vic Soc, councillors on Dover District Council have refused plans. 🧵

Thanks to BBC Midlands Today's @james-bovill.bsky.social for interviewing Tim Bridges + Joe Holyoak from the Society's Birmingham & West Midlands Group about the impact the heritage skills gap is having on local heritage. Watch the report on BBC iPlayer bit.ly/4oooJ04 Read online here bit.ly/4oooJ04

The Victorian Society's latest Newsletter is out now - read it here: bit.ly/4qGXoaS You can also sign up to get our free newsletter in your inbox every month here: bit.ly/3jbU9ue Image: The George Hotel, Huddersfield. Photo: Geoff Hughes

This fabulous edition of our magazine, The Victorian, will be landing on members’ doormats shortly, with great articles on William Butterfield, J. G. Jackson, Basil Champneys and E. S. Prior. In order to receive all 3 copies each year expertly edited by Jeremy Musson join us bit.ly/3OnP6mx #heritage

Lovely to see the listing increased to Grade II* by Historic England and the DCMS for this amazing windmill in Margate. Draper's Windmill was constructed in about 1843, by John Holman, millwright of Canterbury. 🧵 📷 Emily Greenaway

We continue to live in a city created by the Victorians and Edwardians. Yet, we've chosen to prioritize only one type of Victorian and Edwardian transport technology, the automobile. Today, I'm talking at the @thevicsoc.bsky.social on why this came to be, and how the cycling city can exist again.

David Winterton gives the sixth in our series of 🍁autumn online lectures on Frank Darling, Architect of Canada’s Imperial Age 🧵 Buy your ticket here: bit.ly/4oh6pWl #FrankDarling #architect #architecturalhistory #Toronto #EdwardianBaroque #TorontoEdwardian #onlinelecture #heritage #booktalk

These heritage buildings are being affected by the heritage skills crisis in local government. These two buildings are just the tip of the iceberg - this is just Birmingham alone. It is especially marked where it comes to conservation officers 🧵 Handsworth Park Lodge & clock tower. Photo Tim Bridges

Are you passionate about the architecture and design of the Victorian & Edwardian eras? The Victorian Society is seeking new Trustees to join its Board and help shape its future. More: bit.ly/3JjwoNU Applications close: 18th Nov 2025 #trustees #charity #heritage #TrusteesWeek #volunteer

Have you noticed an abandoned or derelict Victorian building near you? 📩 [email protected] for a chance for it to be featured in our Top 10 Endangered Buildings list 2026. 🏘️ 🏭⛪ in England & Wales only, built between 1837 - 1914. More here: bit.ly/4hybqrc #heritage #endangeredbuildings

Thanks to Architects' Journal for listening to our concerns about a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England. Griff and our Director are quoted.

🍁Don't miss the first lecture in our autumn online lecture series tomorrow 21 Oct at 19.00hrs 🔔 Our series celebrates the flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are authors of new books. Buy 7 Talks for price of 6: bit.ly/4pOE2jD

The Society are deeply saddened that despite our objections and concerns from HB&P, the Church Buildings Council and the local Council, the Diocese of Chichester Consistory Court have given permission to remove most of the choir stalls from Holy Trinity Church in Hastings. 🧵 📷 Connor McNeill

😀 We first placed Everton Library on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2019. This is a building of immense quality. We hope that this £250,000 from Liverpool City Council will open a path to a new future for this public building that has been out of use since 1999🧵 📷 RodHullandEmu cc4.0

This online talk by Steven Brindle will examine five celebrated interiors of the Aesthetic Movement that involved Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co.

🎁 Give someone special a gift like no other this Christmas. As a Vic Soc member, they'll receive a year of priority event access, members-only events and a subscription to our magazine. Order your gift here: bit.ly/3OnP6mx

Join us for Robert Thorne's online lecture on Matthew Digby Wyatt. The polymath Wyatt was an architect, administrator, designer, writer and connoisseur.

As part of our autumn online lecture series Michael Hall, author of 'A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust', to be published by Bloomsbury in February 2026, reconstructs a strange, #queer saga at Clumber Park the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle. Read more bit.ly/4o5qqi6 🧵

Shotley Park, a Grade II listed house in Consett, has been on fire overnight. County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service have been working to put out the blaze last night and during today. There was an application in 2024 to turn it into a hotel🧵 historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Come and join us as the Society's Administrator as we campaign for Victorian and Edwardian built heritage. The Administrator plays a central role for the Society in supporting all aspects of this work, ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the office. Read more: bit.ly/4mJudAF #hiring

Halsey Ricardo is a well-known Arts and Crafts figure thanks to his business partnership with William De Morgan, for whom he designed tiles and vases, and his role as head of architecture at the Central School of Arts & Crafts. Read more + book bit.ly/46QxjNv 🧵

The South Yorkshire Group of the Society is seeking new volunteer committee members, as well as someone to lead on their Social Media to support their campaigns/promote our walks & talks. Read more: bit.ly/4gQxIUG Image: Old Town Hall, Sheffield 📷: Dave Pickersgill CC 2.0

@carolinemccaff.bsky.social gives the first in our autumn online lecture series on 21st October. 🧵

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum with partners is hosting a conference ‘Great Expectations’ about the future of the UK’s historic churches, chapels and meeting houses on Tuesday 21 October 2025. Read more and book: bit.ly/4h3oWCT #heritage #History #churches #chapels #meetinghouses

Join us at St Mary Abbots on Kensington Church St for an in-person talk. Rev Evan McWilliams' explores furnishings such as altarpieces, font covers, stained glass windows, and memorials that were provided to ornament existing Victorian churches from the 1890s onwards. Book here: bit.ly/4mhPJMU

Our autumn online lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Book here: bit.ly/4pOE2jD #booktalks

The Society is deeply concerned by a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England. Read more: bit.ly/4pQKFSI 📷 Hotspur Press by Alan Davies #heritage

To mark 200 years of the modern railway DCMS and Historic England have listed at Grade II a number of heritage railway stations and sites. These include those in Weybourne Station & Sheringham Station in Norfolk on the Poppy Line, and Swanage Engine Shed and Turntable. 🧵 bit.ly/3W3jTZp

We are relieved that plans to demolish the 19thC Walk Mills in Keighley + replace it with 12 modern industrial buildings have been withdrawn. The Victorian Society, Historic Buildings & Places, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service & others objected. bit.ly/4mt6Qva 📷Local Democracy Service

Visit St Andrews in Kingsbury with us. St Andrew’s church (Grade II*; 1844-47, by Samuel Whitfield Daukes) is a landmark in Kingsbury, its Perpendicular Gothic spire rising out of a sea of mock-Tudor interwar housing. Read more and book tickets: bit.ly/4nIjBTE #architecturalhistory

Support your amenity societies, folks. They DO make a difference.

Good news! The planning application to build a 6 storey block of flats within Lammas Park + demolish the Victorian East Lodge has been officially withdrawn following overwhelming opposition from the local community, Ealing Civic Society & Victorian Society🧵https://bit.ly/4nAKzMX 📷Michael Dibbs CC

On 1 December 1842, a clergyman was killed by a falling vault at Ferrey’s new church in East Grafton. It has been suggested that this collapse led to a greater stylistic collapse: that of the Romanesque Revival itself. This online lecture examines the ‘lamentable accident’ in detail bit.ly/3IfvVvE

Join us for an in-person lecture exploring the furnishings such as altarpieces, font covers, stained glass windows, and memorials that were provided to ornament existing Victorian churches from the 1890s through the reign of King Edward VII. bit.ly/4mhPJMU 🧵

We are part of this year’s Open House Festival in London. The Vic Soc are based in Bedford Park, Chiswick. Our building is Grade II, 1880 and designed by E. J. May. Just drop-in between 11.00 am and 5.00 pm on Sat 13th September. Read more bit.ly/3UDOCf9

Join us on a visit to Grade I Skinners’ Hall. It has been home to the Worshipful Company of Skinners for over 700 years. This exclusive visit will include a tour of the building, and a look at archival material relating to the 19th + 20th century. Refreshments included. Link in bio #londonhistory

Our pleasure to sponsor Dr Lodge's event as part of our local Chiswick Book Festival. You can book a ticket to hear Sara in conversation, and also come along to see our listed HQ which is open the same day for Open House (just drop by). #19Chistory

A massive thank you to all the staff and students in Oxford, across many colleges and organisations, who made our members and team so very welcome in the run up to, and during the actual #Vicsocagm weekend 2025 🙏💐 Photo: Morgan Ellis Leah

We finish our #vicsocagm with our last but one visit - the chapel at Harris Manchester. The glory of the college is the late Burne-Jones stained glass by Morris & Co (1895-6). It is the only room in Oxford to be lit entirely by their glass. 🧵

Lunch with our members in @exetercollegeox Hall - 1618 with some input from John Nash in 1818. Thanks to the college for their tours and hospitality. Our AGM Weekend annually is a member’s only event. #VicSocAGM #oxford #architecturalhistory

Day 3, our last day of our #VicSocAgm weekend. We are at Exeter College - with little medieval and Tudor architecture left - it has much to interest us. We are here primarily to see the chapel and the library. G G Scott was appointed and the chapel was built in 1856-9.

The chapel @balliolcollege1263_oxford. The architect is William Butterfield. Thanks to the college and its staff for preparing and showing us the gleaming silver that Butterfield designed to be used in his new chapel. #vicsocagm

The interior of the Master’s lodge at Balliol College Oxford. Thanks to Dame Helen Ghosh for exclusive access for our members. #vicsocagm