The Victorian Society

⛱ The current South West Top Ten Endangered Building 2025 announced in May is the Torquay Pavilion. Since we placed the jewel-like Devon Pavilion on our list it has begun to be assessed in order to prepare to fundraise for its restoration. Read more here: bit.ly/49xOl60

Email media@victoriansociety.org.uk to nominate a building/structure with the year it was built, its location, whether it's listed, about its history and/or architecture, the threat it's under, and at least 1 good 📷. Nominated buildings in England or Wales built between 1837 + 1914. By 5th January.

📣 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

Endangered building - Former dockside hotel in Penarth features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025 - The Victorian Society Former dockside hotel in Penarth features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025 is on our list of endangered buildings. The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage

This year's Welsh building, placed on our Top 10 Endangered Building list in May: the former Marine Hotel, Penarth. Grade II, prob. by Samuel Dobson, c.1865. Vacant since the 1980s, the Marine Hotel has steadily decayed; restoration now depends on a sympathetic, well-funded new owner. bit.ly/4pkg2nt

📩 the year it was built, location, whether it's listed, description of its history + architecture, the threat it's under, and at least one good photo. Must be built between 1837 & 1914. Email by 5th January 2026 media@victoriansociety.org.uk to suggest a building or structure. More: bit.ly/4hybqrc

📣 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.

This matters to the Victorian Society because the National Lottery Heritage Fund backed us to recruit a Membership Manager and Fundraising Manager to support our work campaigning for Victorian & Edwardian buildings.
Thank you to all the players for making this possible.
#BecauseOfYou #HeritageFund

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.

The Abbey represents one of the very few rural examples of a substantially intact Nineteenth and early Twentieth century purpose-built monasteries in England. Read more: bit.ly/4o1Bw7C

Photo: Carter Jonas

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

All 📷 on this 🧵 by Graham Tyrrell.

Read more about 2025's Gibson Street Baths here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...

This year's NE Top Ten Endangered building, on our list from May, Grade II Gibson St Baths, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By F H Holford, built 1906 –1907. One of 3 surviving pre-1914 facilities there. Council-owned and now empty. This building urgently needs a sensitive reuse before repair costs escalate.

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 🧵

Thank you Jonathan.

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

Endangered building - Former London school where author Vera Brittain nursed during WWI is on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024 - The Victorian Society Former London school where author Vera Brittain nursed during WWI is on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024 is on our list of endangered buildings. The Victorian Society - Campa...

www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...

📷 shows her brother Edward who was nursed at the school, with Roland Leighton (Vera's fiance who died in France) & their friend Victor. 📷 Vera Brittain and Edward, Roland & Victor William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster Uni Library & the Vera Brittain Estate.

Local people have run a petition, they and we have met with the Council urging them to expedite the sensitive, appropriate reuse for what was last the Kennington Boys' School.

Post-war the building returned to schooling south Londoners, as it had done for over a century, and is a key feature of the Minet Conservation Area. Water ingression continues, and this Grade II heritage building more than ever needs urgent restoration.

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.

For anyone interested here is a closer photo of the inscription on the First World War memorial at Compton. Photo is by Corinne Morris and appears on wikitree: www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/St...

For anyone interested here is a closer photo of the inscription on the First World War memorial. Photo is by Corinne Morris and appears on wikitree: www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/St...

Read our full story here with more links:
bit.ly/495mhqr

Image: Roll of Honour, St Nicholas Church, Compton. Roll of Honour from St Nicholas Church 📷 Basher Eyre cc 2.0

The ancient church of St Nicholas in Compton is marking Remembrance Sunday & Eucharist on 9th November 10:15 – 12:00 hrs. stnicholascompton.org
Stained glass in memory of Harold Cliff Hodges. Born 1918, killed in action in Italy on 16th January 1944. St Nicholas Church Compton. 📷 Marie Clements

Unveiled & blessed April 1922, Compton War Memorial is dedicated to those who died in WWI - on land and at sea - mostly in France, one in Mesopotamia, and at the Battle of Jutland. A number of the Compton servicemen from WWI have no known grave. 📷 www.compton-surrey.co.uk/compton-war-memorial

This elegant, unique, Grade II war memorial in an Arts and Crafts style was designed by Mary Watts, and is an important feature of the thriving historic - and current - artists' village of Compton, Surrey.

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!

Ealing! Queen of Suburbs! You saved Lammas Lodge, let's save Clive Lodge on Marlborough Rd!
💻 Object by 13th November to planning application Ref: 253085FUL on ghe planning portal here:
pam.ealing.gov.uk/online-appli...
📝 Write your objection and please share our posts on your social. Thank you.

Maps show that the dwelling on plot 878 was one of the first houses in the area. As one of the earliest dwellings built in this part of Ealing this home has considerable significance. The extract shows the first house to be built in the position of number 6, which has also been known as Clive Lodge.