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06/05/2021

We have been alerted to concerns regarding the declining condition of this Grade II* listed hall. Years of neglect and recent theft of the roof lead is making the building vulnerable to water ingress.

05/05/2021

8-9 May is National Mills Weekend. Tag us in on social media to celebrate traditional wind and watermills. Repairs to our own windmill in Leicestershire will begin this summer.

28/04/2021

SPAB member Caroline Murray explores the work of a key figure in the historic silk industry

27/04/2021

Huddled beneath a vast sky, on the edge of a cliff, dwarfed by a hulking conical hill sits Holy Cross Church at Mwnt, Ceredigion. 

26/04/2021

Development Officer: Grants & Awards

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Applications by: Thursday 6th May

21/04/2021

Communications officer Felicity enjoys the illusions of a historically-informed 21st century theatre.

 

13/04/2021

Mary, Ethel and Violet Pinwill were three extraordinary women who worked as professional woodcarvers in Ermington and then Plymouth, Devon, from about 1889. Author Helen Wilson introduces the work of this family of craft pioneers.

12/04/2021

We are absolutely delighted that the SPAB is one of the 476 heritage organisations who will share £44M from the the Culture Recovery Fund.  

12/04/2021

We strongly object to plans to substantially alter to the Grade II* listed Drakes Almshouses in Buckinghamshire. We are especially concerned about misguided proposals to address a damp problem, which we think are likely to cause further harm to these special 17th-century buildings. 

09/04/2021

Just outside Halesworth in Suffolk, stands what could be mistaken for a farmhouse but which became a secret meeting house for ‘independents'.