⛱ 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 [email protected] 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.

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 [email protected] to suggest a building or structure. More: bit.ly/4hybqrc

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.
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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

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.

Thank you Jonathan.

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📷 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.

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...

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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