News - SPAB Scholarship

2019 SPAB Scholar Bethan Watson describes a highlight of her Scholarship year so far.

A nine-month, hands-on learning experience aimed at craftspeople, architects, surveyors and engineers.

SPAB Scholar Holly reports on benefits of a flexible approach to conservation at a Palladian villa in Northern Italy

To mark International Women in Engineering day, we asked SPAB Scholar Aoife Murphy to write about her career so far and how she specialised in working with historic buildings.

A few months into their conservation tour of the UK, SPAB Scholar Bethan Watson describes being welcomed into the workshops of craftspeople

As our new Scholars prepare for their year of conservation discoveries, we look to a valued past Scholar. In June 2018 local Scholar Peter Carey (1977) showed us behind the scenes of the redevelopment of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, a building that he had been passionate about for decades.

A nine-month, hands-on learning experience aimed at craftspeople, architects, surveyors and engineers.

Architect Scholar, Pam Dziwulska, writes about her time exploring conservation in Italy.

SPAB Scholar, Matt Loosley writes about conserving the ruinous Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire.

By Lilian Tuohy Main

As we enter the third month of our conservation tour, a theme that continues to arise is the importance of observing before acting. A unifying trait of historic buildings is their numerous ‘unknowns’. It is this intangible mystery that often makes a place compelling.