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The Victorian Society is the national charity which campaigns to preserve the best Victorian and Edwardian architecture, built between 1837 and 1914, in England and Wales. As one of the National Amenity Societies, the Victorian Society is a statutory consultee on alterations to listed buildings, and by law must be notified of any work to a listed building which involves any element of demolition. The society is a membership organisation which relies on the public joining to support its charitable work. The Society runs an annual list of the Top Ten Most Endangered Victorian or Edwardian Buildings in England and Wales and has active Facebook and Twitter accounts used to alert the public to the latest threats to Victorian and Edwardian architecture. The Twentieth Century Society serves a similar role for post-1914 buildings and the Georgian Group for those built between 1700 and 1840. == History == The Society was founded in 1958 to fight the widespread ignorance of 19th and early 20th century architecture which at the time was unfashionable. The first meeting was held at Linley Sambourne House on 28 February. Among its thirty founder members were John Betjeman, Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Nikolaus Pevsner. The society has helped save numerous famous Landmarks such as St Pancras Station, Albert Dock in Liverpool, the Foreign Office and Oxford University Museum. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Victorian Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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