Signed by Ptolemy Dean, Dan Cruickshank, Jeremy Musson, Anya Lucas (the Georgian Group) & our own Director James Hughes, our letter to the Times Editor raises the risks to the City of London's most important churches if the development is given planning permission. #squaremilechurches

Have your say before the end of the day. The Guide to write your objection is here: bit.ly/4jLWsim #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

Our third lecture in our spring series is on Edwin Lutyens by Clive Aslet. Tickets are available to watch online or as a recording - Wed 11 February, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Book here: bit.ly/3ZkeKhr #Lutyens #Artsandcraftsmovement #architect #Britisharchitecture

OBJECT: Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/4jLWsim PLEASE DONATE: We need your help to pay legal and expert's fees to fight this. The link to Justgiving is here - thank you: bit.ly/4dSfiks

Artist Lucinda Rogers made a great performance art piece at Liverpool Street Station this week. Object to Network Rail and Acme’s plans by 9th February here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/national-new... www.instagram.com/reel/DUa21H9...

Network Rail + ACME's plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The way you can help to combat this is to object by 9th Feb. OBJECT: Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is bit.ly/4jLWsim DONATE: We need your help to pay legal and experts' fees to fight this. bit.ly/4dSfiks

🚂 Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are to be decided next week. 💻 OBJECT: Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is on the link on our bio and below in comments. It takes minutes to do this. ⏳ Thank you. ❤️ PLEASE LIKE & SHARE! Photo: Bishopsgate Institute #saveliverpoolstreetstation

Thanks to Asad Ahmad and BBC London News for having Connor McNeill, our Senior Conservation Adviser, on the 6.30pm programme. Connor was discussing Liverpool St Station and Network Rail's current planning application that is on the Planning Committee agenda on Tuesday 10th February. bbc.in/4bEKDsj

Network Rail + ACME’s latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The way to combat this is to object by 9th February on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is on the link on our bio. Along with a link to our fundraiser. #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

The plans by Network Rail and Acme would cause serious harm to the Bishopsgate Conservation Area. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/4jLWsim We need your help to pay legal and experts’ fees to fight this. bit.ly/4dSfiks Photo: Wirewiper CC #saveliverpoolstreetstation

The tall tower if built at Liverpool Street Station will undermine views of an iconic Wren church in the City , and nearby St Botolph's church. If you want to prevent this do object by 9th February. Our Guide to writing your own objection bit.ly/4jLWsim Donate: www.justgiving.com/campaign/sav...

📢 Eight to 10 years of disruption for commuters, businesses and local residents if Network Rail's scheme gets planning permission. Read The Standard here: bit.ly/3ZFyQmg If you want to prevent this commuting and traffic chaos object by 9th February - instructions on the link here: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🚂

Please email in your objection as the City of London’s server has fallen over so you can’t object online… Email here [email protected] OR try online again during office hours Mon-Fri. Thanks #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation #London #railways #commuting #Bishopsgate #Spitalfields

Object. Protect. Here's a guide to making your objection: bit.ly/4jLWsim Video and editing by Banafshe Afsharjam & Cav Aerial #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation #London #heritage #railwaystation #cityoflondon #Bishopsgate #Spitalfields #architecturalhistory #heritagerailways #railways #commuting

📩 Our latest newsletter is out now! Read it here: bit.ly/4rn7VHG ◾ Liverpool St Station update ◾ Churches compelled to pay VAT on ◾ Our Manchester Group at 60 ◾ Casework Sign up to get our free newsletter: bit.ly/3jbU9ue Image: Berwick-upon-Tweed Photo: Graham Robson cc by sa 2.0

If you want to stop this because the price is too high in terms of commuting misery, impact on the heritage buildings, and placing the local community in the shadow of another tall building, please object here: Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

📣 Anyone who has made a comment on the City of London Planning portal, in relation to Network Rail and Acme's plans for Liverpool Street Station, by email or in writing 14 days before the planning committee date, will have received a notification about speaking on Tuesday 10th February 🚂

Join us on 4th February, live in-person or online, for our next Lecture, 'Gertrude Jekyll: Artist Gardener Craftswoman.' This is part of our series 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement', which runs from 28th January - 18th March 2026. Book here: bit.ly/4q7xhZg 🧵

📢 The City of London Planning Sub-Committee will be considering Network Rail and Acme's plans for Liverpool Station on Tuesday 10th February. 🚂 The way to make your voice heard is to write an objection. Here's our helpful Guide: bit.ly/4jLWsim 🧵

🧨 If the City of London give planning permission for Network Rail's plans for Liverpool Street Station it will mean eight years of disruption for station users and local residents. 🔨🔨🔨

📣 SAVE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION! 🚂 If you haven’t objected to Network Rail and Acme’s plans since June 2025 you still have time ⏳ 💻 Even if you signed the petition to Save Liverpool St Station on change.org, you must please go online to make your objection on the City of London planning portal 🧵

Join us live in-person or online for our next Lecture Series, 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement', from Jan - March 2026. On 28th January Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors. 🧵

🍾 Today is the 60th anniversary of the event that led to the creation of our Manchester Group. We send our best wishes to our members in Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness and the High Peak. 🧵 #Manchester #Northwest #architecture #heritage

🚂 The City of London Planning Committee will soon formally consider Network Rail and Acme's destructive plans for Liverpool Street Station, which induced 2147 resounding objections from members of the public, heritage and civic organisations. 🧵 #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation

Well done the Canterbury Society and Ptolemy Dean! Following public and heritage sector concerns, national media coverage and the petition signed by thousands, Canterbury City Council has confirmed that no further historic cast-iron lampposts will be removed while options are reviewed bit.ly/4sD3ieg

Join us on 13th January for an online talk 'Mapping Dorset’s Victorian & Edwardian Buildings.' Michael Hill reveals the suprising delights of the Victorian & Edwardian period in the county. Read more and book: bit.ly/45p5BaT St James Kingston by G E Street 📷Jack Pease CC BY-SA 4.0

Have your say about the future of the Torquay Pavilion. Torbay Council are running an online public consultation to gather views about the future "viable, sustainable uses" for the Grade II listed Pavilion. The cut-off for comment is 25th January. Survey here: bit.ly/453wnFz 📷 Morgan Ellis Leigh

The Society is delighted to see that the Clifton Hotel in #Scarborough has been listed at Grade II. Wilfred Owen worked on his World War I war poetry whilst billeted at the hotel during the conflict. He worked from the tower whilst convalescing. Read the excellent list entry here: bit.ly/4jDs9uk

Ptolemy Dean and the Canterbury Society are calling on Canterbury City Council to save the Victorian cast-iron streetlights across the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more and sign the petition to keep the originals: bit.ly/4bhXNv1

Our President Griff Rhys Jones is on Sky News today asking everyone to nominate a Victorian or Edwardian building or structure for the Society's Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026. Watch Griff here: news.sky.com/story/comedi... Thanks to Greg Milam and all at Sky News for the report.

The Victorian Society office closes from 23rd December for the holidays, and we will be back from 2nd January 2026. We wish all our members, supporters and followers a Merry Christmas and a joyful New Year. Wreath crafted by the team. 📷 Marie Clements

Hear on BBC Norfolk and read on the link about our intrepid Conservation Adviser Morgan Ellis Leah and BBC journalist Clare Worden's visit to the interior of our 2025 East Anglian Endangered building, 33-39 St James Street in King's Lynn: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣 NORTH WEST ENGLAND! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January. Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🙏

The Government has launched an eight-week consultation, which proposes the removal of the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee in the planning process. Read the Gardens Trust’s statement bit.ly/3MPRRiM

📣 YORKSHIRE! We need your nominations for the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026 by 5th January. Please let us know about your local threatened, dilapidated + neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across Yorkshire. 💻 email us at [email protected]

📣 If you live in EAST ANGLIA don't forget to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings in your local area. 🧵 📷 Connor McNeill

📣 SOUTH + SE ENGLAND inc. LONDON! You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about threatened and dilapidated Victorian & Edwardian buildings in your local area. 📩 [email protected] to suggest a building or structure 🧵 📷 Trevor Bishenden

Make a nomination for the Vic Soc’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for 2026. Let us know about your local threatened and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings across England + Wales. Email [email protected] with a building or structure, here's the info we need bit.ly/4hybqrc

🥂 Last week, our Young Victorians celebrated their annual Christmas party at Priory Gardens. Membership is £25 if you’re 35 or under. Enjoy priority booking on tours, discounts on events, and copies of The Victorian magazine. 🎁 Buy before 15 Dec to arrive for Christmas! bit.ly/3OnP6mx 📷 M Naumova

The Society is delighted that it has successfully secured formal designation and statutory protection for the Church of St Barnabas, a remarkably intact small rural church in Mayland, Essex, built in 1867. The church has now been added to the List at Grade II. 🧵 📷 Peter Stack CC SA 2.0

In the New Year join us live in-person or online for our next Lectures. The subject is the Arts and Crafts Movement. In-person lectures will take place at NYU London, The Strand. We'll live-stream with an audience, as well as making our lecture series available as recordings. Book: bit.ly/4oFf30g

Do you live in the EAST MIDLANDS? You are in time to make a nomination for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings. Email [email protected] with a building or structure. More bit.ly/4oxz88Z

🎄 Want to give something special this Christmas? Share the gift of Victorian Society membership! Members get a year of priority event access, discounts for selected events, and a subscription to The Victorian magazine. As the donor, we'll be thanking you with links to 3 online recorded lectures.

🎂 Happy birthday to William Burges (1827 – 1881)! A visionary architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival, Burges reshaped Victorian design. St Mary's church, Studley Royal (James Hughes) Christ the Consoler, Skelton (James Hughes) Worcester College chapel Oxford. (Morgan Ellis Leah) #architect

Thanks to objections from the Vic Soc, Railway Heritage Trust, Bury Society, local + national lovers of railways, the demolition of the Water Tower at Bury St Edmunds station has been prevented. More: bit.ly/4pnpyXl 🚂Water Tower from planning application 🚂station Geof Sheppard CC by SA4 #heritage

📣 Do you live in the SOUTH WEST? We need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Email us about your local threatened, dilapidated and neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings. 🧵 Read more here: bit.ly/4hybqrc 📷 Morgan Ellis Leah

📣 WALES: we need your nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian & Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. 📷 on this 🧵 Morgan Ellis Leah.

Today we are marking the start 31 years ago of the National Lottery supporting good causes including heritage🤞 Since 1994 National Lottery have invested a massive £8.9 billion in more than 48,000 heritage projects in the UK – all thanks to National Lottery players.

Alton Abbey in Hampshire not only housed a community of monks, but gave homes to destitute and retired men from the maritime world at the south coast. We are delighted that the Minister and Historic England have listed this Hampshire abbey church and buildings at Grade II. Photo: Carter Jonas

North East England: we need nominations for our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2026! Tell us about your local threatened, dilapidated, neglected Victorian and Edwardian buildings built between 1837 & 1914. Email us the info we need, see here: bit.ly/4hybqrc On our list this year, Gibon St Baths 🧵