Our thoughts are with those whose businesses have been affected, the firefighters and the Glasgow people who have seen another landmark Victorian building in flames.
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Our thoughts are with those whose businesses have been affected, the firefighters and the Glasgow people who have seen another landmark Victorian building in flames.
The fire seems not to have damaged the adjacent Glasgow Central Station Hotel designed by another significant Scottish architect, Robert Rowand Anderson in 1884.
Burnet (1857-1938) was a very significant Scottish architect and one of the first British architects to train at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later built the Edward VII Galleries at the British Museum for which he was knighted in 1914.
Forsyth House on Union Corner in Glasgow, before the fire, back in 2024.
Listed grade B, built in 1851 and subsequently altered by Sir John James Burnet in 1896, when it became R W Forsyth's department store.
Photo: Crowsus Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Read more about the building and why we put it on our list in 2024. www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...
The much loved Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea, subject to legal agreements, has a new leaseholder. The local council are stating this new deal paves the way to outstanding repairs being undertaken and a new leisure-based use. We placed the building on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2024.
Whall’s achievement will be discussed by Peter Cormack, a noted scholar of post-medieval British and American stained glass, William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement, His classic study 'Arts & Crafts Stained Glass' (Yale Univ Press) was the first book to do Whall and his legacy full justice.
On the 18th March Peter Cormack will deliver the final lecture in our Spring series. He will be speaking on Christopher Whall. Online tickets are still available: bit.ly/40lflQk
Dr Lynn Hulse is a textile scholar and practitioner, specialising in embroidered furnishings of the Aesthetic and Arts & Crafts movements. She is author of several publications and editor of 'May Morris: Art & Life (2017).' Her most recent 'May Morris Designs' (Ashmolean Museum 2025).
Drawing on her corpus of designs in the Ashmolean Museum, Lynn Hulse will explore May’s approach to translating a sketched idea into a finished piece of embroidery, contextualising her work within the artistic developments of needle-art that were taking place leading up to and during her lifetime.
May Morris described design as ‘the very soul and essence of beautiful embroidery’ and ranked it chief among the four elements that make a piece of needlework truly ‘artistic’.
On March 11th Lynn Hulse will deliver an online lecture, 'May Morris and the Art of Embroidery.' We only have online tickets now available for our lecture series 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement.' 🧵
Image on this thread: Church of St John the Baptist, Macclesfield. Grade II,1832-34, Hayley and Brown, with later alterations. Photo: Dave Kelly cc by sa 2.0
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◾ Liverpool Street Station update
◾ Church repair fund runs out
◾ Casework in Nottingham, Hampshire, Macclesfield and Cornwall
◾ Top Ten buildings update: Berkshire, Norfolk and Essex
◾ Events
◾ Property for sale
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Wiliam Horton
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The House and interiors show 18 Stafford Terrace (now Linley Sambourne House) where Anne, Lady Rosse, held the meeting to found the Victorian Society.
History in the making…
25th February marks 68 years since the founding of the Vic Soc. #onthisday in 1958, Lady Rosse, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were amongst the founding members of the Society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian & Edwardian heritage, architecture and arts.
Here's the Mechanics Instutute, another building in Manchester that wouldn't be standing today without our Manchester Regional Group. Photo: Patricia Smith
Another chat with Ken will go out tomorrow on BBC Manchester's breakfast programme focussing on the Vic Soc campaign to save and list the former Parrs/Westminster Bank. Photo: Patricia Smith
To mark our Manchester Group's 60th Anniversary, the delightful Ken Moth, veteran member and campaigner, was interviewed by journalist Michelle Adamson on BBC Manchester breakfast programme this AM. You can listen back on iplayer it’s 3 hours 20 min into the programme:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Following the submission of an extensive Business Plan Chelmsford Diocese voted to support the next stage of the plan to save key parts of Birch Church! Critically, Chelmsford Diocese have agreed to contribute about 10% of the project’s full cost, which will be over £3M
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birch Inspire, campaigners for St Peter & St Paul, Essex, have had a great step forward in preventing parts of the Church from demolition. We placed the building on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2012. 🧵
📷 Dan Sceats
