Church Conservation

A proposal to deregulate the disposal process for church buildings is on the Church of England Synod agenda this week. 

SPAB is a signatory to a joint statement on the new Mission and Pastoral Regulations:

Discussion of the Makin Review and the sufficiency of the Church of England’s safeguarding procedures is quite rightly at the top of this week’s General Synod agenda.

Standing on the very edge of the county is one of Suffolk's finest medieval churches

The first John Betjeman Award in Ireland recognises sensitive external stonework conservation.

Checklists and video guides to help you look after faith buildings, from the SPAB, the National Churches Trust and Historic England for National Maintenance Week

Our award for excellence in conservation at places of worship of all denominations and faiths drew a range of impressive entries in the England & Wales category. We were especially pleased to see the United Reformed Church, and Methodist buildings, represented this year.

We catch up with 2019 SPAB Scholar Holly Spilsbury, who's working to repair this church with Pearce Bottomley Architects.

We were recently consulted on proposed changes to St George’s in West Grinstead, Sussex to accommodate its bat population. We asked The Bats in Churches Project, to tell us more about protecting historic buildings and bats.

Our archive contains a collection of magic lantern slides which are being catalogued by volunteers. We are rediscovering some wonderful images of ancient buildings and structures around Britain.