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 🧵

The Spectator, online/in print, looks further into our own story about the Minister over-ruling expert advice on nationally important historic buildings bit.ly/445OKJa The Vic Soc, @c20society.bsky.social, @thegeorgiangroup.bsky.social, The Gardens Trust speak about the current situation. #heritage

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 🧵