Lying in our archives is a heavy and crumbling album. It contains more than a hundred drawings, mostly dated from the 1780s, nearly a century before the SPAB was founded. So who was he and why do we have his work?
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07/03/2022
For International Women's Day, writer Gillian Darley champions the life and work of architect and designer Sarah Losh (1785 – 1853)
03/03/2022
Laying the groundwork for a new phase at St Andrews. Watch our 2021 year in review video.
09/02/2022
Discover Thomas Wyatt's link to our Old House Project, and why his sonnets caused a stir in the Tudor court.
24/01/2022
A collapsing churchyard wall in Feltwell, Norfolk repaired thanks to community spirit, SPAB Working Parties and a lot of cake
12/01/2022
Almost every year the Art School generously accommodate SPAB Fellows in their workshops. 2021 Fellow Toby Slater, a carpenter, enjoyed a two-week placement in the Historic Carving Department.
05/01/2022
Described by Alan Bennett as ‘undoubtedly this country’s greatest theatrical architect’, Frank Matcham’s pleasure palace for the Peaks enchants Kate Griffin
19/12/2021
Stonehenge may have an air of timelessness, in fact it has been a place of constant change, as our archive reveals.
16/12/2021
The SPAB Scholarship offers an unrivalled training opportunity to architects, surveyors and engineers in the early stages of their career. Reaching the end of their conservation tour, our talented 2020-21 Scholars Libby, Amy and Lucy share their experiences
09/12/2021
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the UK in the summer of 1951. Writer and broadcaster Gillian Darley looked in our archive to explore our involvement.