![]() ![]() Once demolished these buildings, and the stories they tell, are lost forever.†We must not allow quick profit, or spurious “public benefit†arguments to outweigh the loss of buildings which future generations should be allowed to cherish and enjoy. Whilst listing used to protect our best historic buildings for posterity, today gaining consent to demolish them is becoming just a minor inconvenience for determined developers. A fourth building, the former Birds’ Eye HQ in Walton, Surrey, is Grade II listed.Ĭatherine Croft, our Director, said: “Once England was seen to be leading the way in the conservation of historic buildings, now the system is impotent and disastrously under resourced. Three buildings on the 2019 list, the Whitehall office block Richmond House, Harlech Theatre in Wales and the former All Saints’ Pastoral Centre and Chapel in Colney, Hertfordshire, are all Grade II* listed, a category of architecturally important buildings which make up only 5.8% of all listed buildings in the country. ![]() The previous list of the top 10 such buildings published in 2019 below shows that even outstanding listed buildings face demolition, if they happen to be C20 ones. The list shows how our once highly regarded historic building protection system is failing, leading to an outrageous waste of money and environmental impact, as well as the loss of some exceptional architecture. The frequently cited “Chronicles” was a detailed early Iron Age history from which numerous other biblical narratives may have been drawn.Every two years, we publish a list of Buildings at Risk. The Hebrew Bible refers to some 20 works that no longer exist. Only 55 survive in any language.īook of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel The Iraq-born medieval mathematician, astronomer and physicist, whose work on optics (in a Latin translation of the Arabic) and the scientific method influenced thinkers in Europe, wrote more than 200 works. Half of 800 remaining volumes burned in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 3 percent of the original text survives. More than 2,000 scholars contributed to this 11,000-volume Ming dynasty text on subjects ranging from agriculture to art, theology and natural sciences. “Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars.” The sixth, on music, may have disappeared in the 3rd-century-B.C. We still have the “Five Classics” traditionally ascribed to the Chinese philosopher, covering poetry, rhetoric, ancient rites, history and divination. The last complete manuscripts may have burned when Alexander the Great conquered Persepolis in 330 B.C. The holy book of ancient Persia’s quasi-monotheistic creed survives as a sprawling collection of fragments-an estimated one-quarter of the original text. A Hebrew translation was the basis for a popular version in medieval Europe. This collection of beloved Indian animal fables, written as early as 100 B.C., is known to us from early translations in Pahlavi (now lost), Syriac and Arabic-the original Sanskrit source vanished. The rest were burned by conquistadors and Catholic monks in the 16th century. ![]() Out of perhaps thousands of bark-cloth books recording Mayan history, culture and religion-written in hieroglyphics as early as the 9th century-fewer than five texts survive. An estimated total of more than 80 of his works are lost to history. 525-456 B.C.) tragic trilogy is thought to have reframed the Trojan War as a reckoning with contemporary Athenian democracy. But those have made Lesbos’ most famous daughter (as classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has called her) a revered lyric poet of erotic love. she composed 10,000 lines of poetry, filling nine volumes. Their replacements were allegedly destroyed by a 5th-century Roman general who feared that invading Visigoths would use them. Roman leaders consulted these oracular sayings during political crises for perhaps 900 years. From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist: ![]()
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