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The Victorian Society is asking the public to nominate threatened Victorian and Edwardian buildings for their list of Top 10 Endangered Buildings to be announced in 2025.
The Victorian Society writes:
The Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings campaign highlights dilapidated and neglected buildings around England and Wales that are in desperate need of saving. The media coverage the campaign gains helps to spotlight buildings that would otherwise lie forgotten and decaying. This publicity can alter their fate for the better.
Griff Rhys Jones, President of the Victorian Society said, ‘The Top 10 Endangered Buildings list is coming up again. I urge you to consider nominating a building. We get publicity and genuine help for threatened heritage from it. We get attention. And we tend to get increased membership too. It was an important factor in securing over two thousand objections to the plans for Liverpool Street Station and so the current rethink from Sellar, the developer. It will be important again. We have seen some extraordinary cases over the years. Some amazing buildings. The fight has to go on. We need in these straitened times of emergency growth to make an ever more cogent case for the value of heritage and the importance of informed recycling.’
To nominate a building email media@victoriansociety.org.uk with the year it was built, its location, whether its listed, a brief description of its history and/or architecture and the threat it is under, and at least one good photo. Nominated buildings must in England or Wales and built between 1837 and 1914. Preference is given to listed buildings. Multiple nominations do not help secure inclusion. The deadline for nominations is 31 December 2024.
