Landmark department stores at risk of being permanently lost, report warns

‘Cathedrals of commerce’ should be granted new life as galleries, homes and community hubs, says Save Britain’s HeritageAt least 18 “high street titans” – architecturally significant department stores that have fallen victim to profound changes in shopping patterns – are at risk of being permanently lost, according to a new report.But these “cathedrals of commerce”, as Émile Zola described them in his 1883 novel The Ladies’ Parad